For a three-week performance in Portland, Oregon in 2007, artist Corin Hewitt constructed an elaborate enclosed set. The space combined a kitchen with a photo studio and a live theater. Over the course of the exhibition, Hewitt worked inside the set – cooking, sculpting, heating & cooling, casting, eating, and weaving – as gallery visitors peeked in through a slit in the wall.

The performance merged iconography of the contemporary and historic Northwest, creating hybrid objects and images out of basketry, totems, fabric, canned food, fresh vegetables, grasses and other materials. Along with these items, Hewitt incorporated a selection of objects and images from his own personal history, as well as from the first performance in this ongoing series. The seventy-five color photographs in this book, all made by Hewitt during the performance, document the making and reworking of the various materials.

The third performance in this series occurred at the Whitney Museum of Art from October 3, 2008 - January 4, 2009.

Superimposing the touristic and the personal, the organic and the inorganic, the object and its image, Hewitt creates a body of work that intimately interrogates the cycles of transformation and transience.