When We Didn’t Touch The Ground

2012

When We Didn't Touch the Ground includes a single-channel video, a site-specific video installation and a series of photographs.

This work is an homage to the environments that the artists created as children, reinterpreting the sites of their early imaginative lives to explore what it means to combine creative worlds. From towers of stacked furniture to a dammed up creek to a treehouse that can only be accessed by a long climb up bedsheets, the McMillans have re-created these seminal, invented sites of their childhoods. These places and narrative play-scapes are the root of their practice. When We Didn't Touch the Ground is a re-creation of these familiar spaces of youth: that liminal moment between the intensity of a child's play and the call to dinner.