Blue Movie: Turning Red

Installation: Blue Movie:  Turning Red
Artist: Anne D. War’s-Hell
Dates: 2 March 2005 to 15 September 2005

This pastiche integrates a theater of works.  Featured sculpture includes Gimmie a Lift, The Factory:  An Allegory (aka The Secret of
Mondrian), Paint the Town Red, A Sign of the Times, Cut it Out, In Front of the Green Doors, the reprise Behind the Green Doors (a
Double Feature), Cargo Cult, Scaffolding (a Temporary Installation), Chopper, and Flower Child.

Dateline 19AUG2000-In the beginning, there was naught.  No Majestic Stove Lofts to the left (it’s building).  The Robbins Law firm just moved in (center building). The Edge Lofts building was still a mail sorting facility (right building).  But there was Art2Part ?.

Dateline 19AUG2000-Every good movie starts with a script.  The working title of this script was “Turning Red.”  Sherwin-Williams’ Cranberry Bog to be precise, but red was a more accessible name.

Dateline ?29DEC2019-Warhol called his art studio The Factory.  This studio is The Manufactory.  In the current installation, artist Randolph Bradley puts the finishing touches on the Mondrian-esque windows. They look out to the concrete blocks, Turning Red, of the 3,500 s.f. addition built in 1959.

Dateline 22SEP2001-Artisan Ted Swink continues with the theme of “Turning Red.”

Dateline 31MAY05-Construction on the Majestic Stove Lofts is going full force.  Note the white sign to the lower left of the building.  A sing of the times, in fact.

Dateline 9OCT2005- Before there was Majestic Stove Lofts, there was J.L. Marsh of St. Louis.  Courtesy of Robert Wood, we present this restored sign of the times.

Dateline 9APR2005-Before the block buster installation “Behind the Green Doors,” there was nothing.  The groundwork was cobbled together, and the effort ramped up.  The project seemed destined to climb the ladder of success.

Dateline 15SEP2005-Behind schedule, over budget, but with grit and determination, the project wraps.  Note the missing fencing sections to the right.  The project is 99 44/100% complete at this point.

Dateline 13NOV2006-In a sneak preview, the answer to what’s “Behind the Green Doors” is revealed.  Nothing.  The ladder of success still remained to be climbed.

Dateline 4NOV2006-The crew parts in this case.  This shipping box proves the maximum that no good void shall remain unfilled!

Dateline 14OCT2005-It’s a grind, but Al Collins steps up to “de-plaster” the concrete block wall where once was a front office.

Dateline 17DEC2006-The crew hams it up before “Scaffolding,” a temporary installation.

Dateline 5AUG2006-Ted Swink paints bar joists.  The joist were first vacuumed, then power washed, then hand washed, then primed, then painted with two coats of Sherwin-Williams Black Industrial Enamel.

Dateline 11AUG2007-Myron Swink introspection.  Someone is plumb tuckered out!  Unfortunately, the press panned Blue Vacuum, contending “It sucks.”

Randolph Bradley takes to the skies in a kit helicopter, literally flying by the seat of his pants.  A friend undertook initial construction of this helicopter in The Manufactory.

Dateline 5AUG2007-The beautification efforts continue both inside and outside The work tilling soil, cleaning off the masonry edging strip (actually an old building foundation), and planting chicory.