ABSTRACT
In the summer and fall of 1996, the artist Mona Higuchi lived and worked at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Ensconced in a four-room apartment in a former carriage house on the museum’s grounds, with twenty-four-hour access to the museum, Higuchi was asked to participate in a relatively new artist-in-residence program that invites several artists each year to spend time at the Gardner. In the case of Higuchi, she was also asked to create a new work for public exhibition that responded to some aspect of the museum and its permanent collection.