Smith’s films were shot in friends’ living rooms and nature free of cost.

Evidence

Meanwhile, Jack Smith spent the summer of 1963 filming a “commercial” follow-up to Flaming Creatures. Normal Love was very much a film of its season. Except for several scenes staged once the weather turned cold around the Moon Pool, a gauzy, candle-lit, incense-shrouded mirror-strewn altar to Maria Montez that Smith had laboriously built in the middle of Joan and Robert Adler’s Fourteenth Street living room, it was strictly back to nature. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 453

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Supports the reader’s argument in Grafting & Growth about improvised vernacular structures — the Moon Pool is a handmade altar in a borrowed living room, infrastructure built from available materials.