"And the crowds came. They'd follow a looping biplane out into the farmlands and find a man or woman selling tickets for a ride in an airplane - maybe as little as $1 for a five-minute trip around the field, $2.50 for a chance to fly all around town."

d3ms collaborative presented it's latest venture, "Barnstorming at the Big Star Ranch" which took place on Saturday, August 3rd, 2002, at Sally and Dave's "Big Star Ranch", Grass Vallery, California. This site-specific art project featured large "flying" objects filling the barn’s interior, paper airplanes, projections in the form of light, shadow and video creating a barnstorming palace of the rural kind. The event involved the temporary transformation of a red barn into a space for kinetic contemplation of heat, light, air, hay, chickens and evidence of the desire to flyt. The objects in the space were almost entirely made from materials found onsite - wood, corrogated aluminum, fans, etc.. The video and film projections featured real time images of floating paper airplanes, recorded images of sky/clouds, rotating fans, cathedral interiors and a hand in flight out of the window of a car on the freeway.

The project was on view for one evening then dismantled the following morning with specific visual eliments left in place at the request of the owners. Our intent, like the barnstormers of an earlier era, was to arrive, create spectacle, then depart.

A very special thanks to Sally and Dave for their kindness and hospitality.