Overall View of Bamboo Structure - Ver. 1, Campus Ha Noi, 2006

Examples of the Transparencies

Ha Noi Windows

Ver. 1, Ha Noi 2006

Ver. 2 Milan, Italy 2007

Ver. 3, Milwaukee, USA 2010

This Is a large room filling installation work conceived by LawrenceD'Attilio in 2006 as his cross cultural project pertaining to his term as artist resident at Campus Ha Noi.. It wa a bamboo pole floor to ceiling construction for a space 12 feet high and 12 by 20 ft floor area. The black and white negative film photographs that are part of the structure are also by Lawrence. The films were imnfluenced by the work of graphic artists also residents at Campus Ha Noi

Ha Noi Windows was conceived as a collaborative and multi discipline work. Ha Noi painter, Le Huy Hoang travaled at night around Ha Noi pointing out and discussing with Larry scenes in the city he felt were his way to identify iconic life there. As they traveled Larry made photographs as a shared experience with Hoang's way of feeling and understanding his city. They also recorded street sounds with their own voices as they traveled.

U.S. Violinist Pamela Foard (wife of Lawrence) worked with Ha Noi composer, Vu Nhat Tan, to create and record a sound track that interacted with the felt experience in the structure with it's suspended transparent images. The violin and street sounds were layered interactively and a stereo street effect permeated the space

Finally the structure has fans to circulate air that blows the suspended transparencies around. With spotlights and white walls to the room, projected dreamlike versions of the images are seen moving about the walls.

Viewers could best enjoy the installation by walking through the structure so that their bodies physically related to the forms, sounds, and transparency movements.

The Milan version was similar.

The Milwaukee version used hammered steel posts anchored in large concrete blocks to create a slightly abstracted sense of a Ha Noi Old Quarter street scene. Yellow curtains of fabric suspended between the utility pole-like posts replaced the white walls of Version 1 for displaying light patterns from the moving transparencies. The design also employed the ideas and work of a collaboration with the Roesler family, residents of Milwaukee.