Library Shenanigans

architectural model shenanigans

May 25, 2016 at 4:27 pm 1 comment

Tutt Library at Colorado College is undergoing a major renovation right now (in fact, I’m listening to the sounds of slams and crashes as I type this). Workmen cleaned out our sub-basement and found an old architectural model of our building, probably made in 1980 when the South addition was built.

As soon as we installed the model in our display case, my colleague Sarah Bogard began taking close-up photographs. I think these are lovely, and strangely poetic.

We found ourselves placing the little people in various arrangements and playing with the model like a dollhouse. Other colleagues stopped by to see what we were doing and got involved. Someone said this set-up looked like the whomping willow in the Harry Potter books:

An hour or so later, a small Pegasus appeared.

What will happen next?

Addendum, May 26, 2016:

Addenda, May 31, 2016:

Entry filed under: academic libraries, art, perpetrated by staff, Tutt Library Colorado College.