Room 28

mixed media
variable dimensions
1997

Installation Text:
In September of 1997 I drove to Texas and stayed in a roadside motel about one hundred miles west of Austin. I checked in under an alias and paid for the stay with cash. I had hand tools and about forty empty suitcases in my truck. To avoid suspicion, I spent an afternoon unloading the truck two bags at a time, waiting five or ten minutes between trips. Once everything was inside, I cut down and packed the entire contents of the room (furniture, fixtures, mirrors, etc.) into the suitcases. I loaded the truck during the night and left before sunrise.