Last week we posted a short video of our Under Hill Suite online, expecting it to settle quietly among the millions of other things people see in a day. Instead, it seems the internet had other plans. Late at night, the video was watched for the one-millionth time.
A million is a strange number. We don’t know how many individual people watched it, or how many came back for another look. We only know that, at some point, a little video of our room under the hill crossed that remarkable number.
And that feels a little magical.
The Under Hill Suite took months to build. We bent steel into the shapes of roots, worked concrete by hand, scraped quite a lot of it from beneath our fingernails, and spent an unreasonable amount of time deciding exactly what colour “dirt” should be. It was built slowly, carefully, and entirely by hand.
So to watch something that took months to make travel around the world in seconds is a strange and lovely thing. There were shares and tags, and plenty of comments, including one that made us laugh: “Adults only?… GLORIOUS!!!”
To everyone who watched, shared, tagged a friend, or simply paused for a moment to peek under the hill — thank you. We’re very glad our little room found its way to you.
Now, if you’ll excuse us, we have to go polish a tiny green stove.
