a testimony concerning make-believe
Gray House was founded by Rosie Gray in 1997 when her propensity for telling outrageous lies culminated in typical Ouija Board manipulation one night at a sleepover. More on that throughout the Gray House series.
That night, the seeds that would grow into the Gray House Artistic Movement were sown.
What is the Gray House Artistic Movement?
The Gray House Movement is two people in number currently, although it has grown to dozens and shrunk back down again many times over the last three decades. It began as a lie that evolved into a cult and became a way of living that grabs hold of a person and refuses to let go. All who have entered the doors of Gray House have left for fear of what Gray House does to one’s mind and come back again for the haunting effect the Gray Family have on one’s heart.
The doors of the House have been revolving since the beginning, and the Grays are always open to discussion about our methods. The House isn’t something that can be accessed through Rosie and Evelyn Gray the way it once was. Access to Gray House is easy and requires only a willingness to engage in make-believe with a dangerous level of seriousness. Feel free to reach out to us with any questions.
We call ourselves a movement because it’s our belief that the Gray House Method can, and will, change the face of art, connections between artists, and ultimately change the world.
What is the Gray House method?
Also known as the Heavenly Creatures Method after the 1994 film starring Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet, the Gray House Method refers to the way in which all art and literature gets created and subsequently treated in Gray House. Simply put, it’s the act of making fictional characters come to life through text conversations, letters, and live performances.
The Gray House Method was developed by Rosie and Evelyn Gray who pretend (full time) that the Gray Boys and Gray House itself are real. They spend all day, every day in a lifelong game of improvisation together, creating secret worlds, and finding new and strange ways to fall in love with each other.
The goal of the Gray House Movement is to create external dimensions with consequence and palpability using the artist’s notoriously lonely and isolated internal world.
If the characters and storylines you create had real-world consequences, how would they change? Likewise, how do your characters react when confronted with a real person’s reaction to them? The results are as complex as they are devastating.
Once two or more people engage using the Gray House Method, what ensues immediately is the formation of a psychological playground (that quickly turns to a battlefield) upon which a person uses their desires and trauma to manipulate their characters into playing out situations that mirror their wishes and fears. The blank and private page where these artistic struggles typically play out is moved to a live-action role playing game with no rules, no end point, no safe words, and at least one other “real” person experiencing the genesis of your creations first-hand. Not to mention judging those creations.
The Gray House Method provides no time or space for rough drafts or for hiding scars. Everything is on display
The separation (or lack-thereof) of what’s real versus what isn’t becomes the discretion of your heart.
