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House Guests
at the A.G.O.

Leif Harmsen and Luis Jacob, Houseguests, 2001

I created In All Directions (2001) with Luis Jacob for "House Guests", an exhibition to celebrate the Art Gallery of Ontario's first century.  It commanded the Music Room with steel wires, custom electronics and hundreds of white LEDs (then just newly invented) each lovingly hand soldered to a pair of alligator clips, and a custom made power supply regulator. We first created the suspended constellation where I lived at the Lippincottage Art Laboratory, then reassembled it in the in the sublime counterpoint of the then beautifully preserved historic interior (criminally since demolished) at The Grange .

Leif Harmsen, Luis Jacob, colaborating on Houseguests at the AGO