This summer I received a Refurbish Grant from Ignition Northwest to make a platform for Propolis and to show it at Critical Massive July 18-24 in Mt. Vernon, WA. Propolis was originally built with the Burning Man playa in mind, meaning I buried much of the wiring underground. I clearly can not hide the wiring in the same way in other circumstances so I built a platform to hide it.

This was my first year at Critical Massive and I had a blast – while it was certainly smaller than Burning Man there was a lot of fantastic art, great people, and a nice community feel. I enjoyed meeting a lot of other local artists. It rained for the first couple of days and I was a little nervous about short-circuits, so for the first two days Propolis was sequestered under a canopy. While that clearly is not what I had in mind, I ended up kind of liking it as the canopy created a nice cozy and intimate environment. The only problem is people did not know they were welcome to enter the space and most people just peeked in from the outside. Thankfully the rain cleared up and Propolis was freed from its canopy for the last two days of the event.