![]() ART IN the ORCHARD Invitational '22! parkhillorchard.com/art Easthampton, Mass
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![]() ![]() I cut firewood too, to keep warm in these Northeast winters. But I'm still a specialized logger, a forester on the look-out for wood with a particular bend to it; something that calls to me, a blemish-free tree on which to imprint my image, sometimes with - sometimes without - treeishness. Born to a family with shipbuilding ancestry in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, I dropped out of school and apprenticed myself to ship carvers. Tried and failed, to fence the world out. Educated myself with visits to the Natural History Museum and museums of modern art. Bones and banshees followed me home. Polynesian art had me chopping out my own Rapa-Nui. These trips often sent me out to the backwoods with my little axe. So did listening to music. I've a long history of making silent musical instruments. They produce a lot of noise. Of course ideas make even more racket. My personal odyssey as an artist carried me in the tumultuous 60's to a hill commune in Vermont. ![]() After years on the road I've returned to The Monteverdi Artists Collaborative and my studio Knuckleburg, begun in the eighties but never finished. Here in the hills above Brattleboro, Vermont, there is abundance of blank canvas and space to shape it in. Over the years my work has been exhibited in universities and private collections. It can be seen on Google earth...and here, now, at Knuckleburg where I can display it free from constraints of commercialism. |