August 2021 Reviews

BioChar Kiln Build/ Encaustic Documentation/ Living Sculpture Summer Presentation/ Documentation

An apple orchard is at the center of my work. In it, I use the principles and practices of natural agriculture to integrate the primal elements of fire, water, earth, carbon, flora and fauna. These are the mediums of my art. Each element has its own voice in constant conversation with each other that works together to create a living sculpture. I listen intently to what they are saying.

Focus: Building a BioChar Kiln for Site

Fire has come back again and again, not to destroy but to rebalance. Fire in my project was used to heal the unbalanced pH of the soil. I used the ashes brought on by fire to sweeten soil of the site and allow life to begin. This medium resets the soil geo clock that was washed away by acidic rains and time. Fire was recently used to create biochar that can feed soil for hundreds of years, providing structure to the soil and surface for life to flourish.

Summer Plan One: Use the prototype to design a large BioChar Kiln for the Living Sculpture Site. Also, creating casting of Vessels for Replication.

Cob made with native soil, sand, and straw.

Focus: Healing Earth “Living Sculpture” Project

Focus: Documentation

Documentation Clear and Unclear Conversations: 50 Audio Files Transcribed for Sculpting Life Fugue

First Day of Spring Audio and Transcript

Voice 1:
First day of spring. The snow is almost all melted. I can hear it gurgling under the ground. It makes everything here very wet and soaked, and I can just now start seeing just little edges of green. People are out right now, looking for leaks, collecting sap to make syrup. The birds are coming home and looking for nests. And the sun is just a little warmer than it was yesterday.

Voice 1:
I have yet to see the first robin, but I’m patient. I see leftover nuts on the ground. I was saddened to see that the brook trout were missing, but I know somebody needed to eat during the winter so I’m happy that somebody didn’t go without.

Voice 1:
The wind blows, but it’s not quite as bitter. The trees are right now pulling the sap from their toes, up into their limbs, up into their trunks, through their branches. You can almost feel the movement. The sound of Peepers…