Questions and Starting Strategies

10 questions

1. What should the relationship be between other people’s forts and me? Should they be a part of the building? Should it be in their space?

2. How important is it that these forts are built in my childhood home?

3. How does age factor in to this process, does it matter that the descriptions of the forts are reflective and drawn from memory? Should the forts be constructed by people who are currently fort builders (aka kids)?

4. Is the relationship between child and adult being articulated? Is it important to show the adult space that surrounds the space?

5. Would doing research on dwellings in general be helpful, why certain dwellings were built? What was the motivation behind them?

6. Would research on child psychology be helpful? Attempting to understand the psychological motivation behind fort construction and why it is so common.

7. How does the institutionalization of the child’s fort fit in? Children’s forts have begun to be mass-produced and sold: does this fit in? Should this be considered?

8. How messy should the forts be? Do they need to look lived in?

9. How important is the temporality of these forts, often they are only made to last for a short amount of time, is that understood? Is that important?

10. What types of objects should inhabit the forts? Would some shots of just the interiors be interesting?

Starting Strategies

· Reconsider the interview process and my relationship between with the original fort builder.

· Continue to collect fort images, and interviews

· Look how other artists have dealt with re-contextualizing other’s stories.