New And upcoming work in progress
As an extension of the Earth Press Project initiated in 2019, the studio is exploring performance and methods of printing.
Printmaking can be found anywhere; the lipstick on a glass, the track of a snail through the sand, or the bedded grass from a resting deer or two. What attracts me to this pictorial storytelling is the layers of printing over all of life, all substrates and the ephemerality of mark making of the more-than-human world. It becomes a non-verbal language that we can start to understand, it bridges the natural world with our cultured one.
New Performance Work
Walking With Love, performance based work carrying 60 lbs of earthen LOVE on my back.
This new work engages my body with the environment while contemplating immigration, the memories of homeland, and what constitutes earthly possessions. What would I bring with me if I needed to leave Vermont?
““…….People ought to saunter in the mountains - not ‘hike!’ Do you know the origin of that word saunter? It’s a beautiful word. Away back in the middle ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going they would reply, ‘A la sainte terre’, ‘To the Holy Land.’ And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.”
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New performance work also takes a look at printing directly into earth using our feet or other methods. Arising out of two recent projects, Intensive Rotational Grazing and Earth Press Project, Love Notes to Earth: Embedded is a site-specific land and text art, culminating in sound design (reading), video, social media presence and book. Ephemeral in nature, the act of imprinting messages into earth is akin to creating fossils in a publicly generated, socially engaged expression of love for the earth. Currently, in the research and development stage, the studio is actively researching printing methods, photographic opportunities, different environments and substrates, as well as developing the content to be printed in an ongoing collection of messages to earth.
