"As long as the grass grows, the river flows and the sun shines" is an installation created by Regina Frank for A-DRESS, an exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada. Regina Frank lived and worked in her house dress for three days and then ad-dressed her dress with a daily letter via Internet for 97 days until March 17, 1996. The audience outside of her "home dress" can read Regina's correspondence on a daily basis in the museum as well as here and communicate with her via e-mail.

Frank is interested in reflecting the dress as a living space, habitation or an address. She sees dresses as a second skin transmitting information through the skin into the body. Home-addresses can be a symbol for status, inner circumstances or mental homes. The letters that she is writing are insights about her own experience while traveling and moving in constant mental homelessness seeking her orientation in a spiritual home. She comments upon the ideology of public and private space and territorial consciousness as well as explores social and cultural codings that circumscribe the body. With her work she bridges the gap between high technology and the feminine symbol of the dress. Her practice is interventionist and marginal both in its efforts to reach other audiences through alternative sites outside the gallery and in her attempt to intervene in the ever more obscured space between public and private in order to reconstitute the body away from spectacle.
Shirley Madill, curator at Winnipeg Art Gallery.