'Today was a (sic) ok day', 1992, Multi-media installation.

Courtesy of the artists and participants.

'Today was a (sic) ok day' was originally created for The Woodbourne Workshops, an exhibition curated by Lisa Corrin for the Contemporary, Baltimore. The work was created in collaboration with children of the Woodbourne Center, a multi-service facility serving hundreds of severly troubled children and their families throughout Maryland.

Multi-projection by the artists.

Katherine Kendall and Sherwin Mark work both independently and collaboratively. They have led intensive photography workshops with groups as diverse as youth in a small African American community in Rochester, New York, to elderly Alzheimer patients in Baltimore, Maryland.

The workshop which led to 'Today was a (sic) ok day' started initially as a wood construction that would function as a new sculptural entrance to the school. After several sessions and with the construction almost complete, the artists arrived for the final session to find the construction had been completely destroyed, obviously by a vehicle ramming the construction several times.

Kendall and Mark used slide images taken by the students, entries in their own journals, ambient noise recorded during their working sessions and readings from the student's diaries to form a narrative of images, text and sound about the residency experience at the school.