Fieldwork

It is amazing what one can do in an hour with a chain saw, a back hoe, a shovel, and a big, beautiful, old, dead pine tree. My neighbour, Dave, leant his expertise and machinery to the cause yesterday and dragged a gorgeous old pine pole from a swampy roadside spot just down the road, to its winter home in the Field. This ‘beacon’ will become part of my winter installation ‘Winter Gestures/Beacon Whispers‘ which is beginning to take shape.  More detailed information about the goings on in the field this winter will be coming so check back to see what’s happening and how you can participate. 

Here, for now, are some pictures of the beacon being ‘relocated’ to the Field.

 - Susie

It seems that someone’s taken to doing a bit of performance art in the Field…Some ‘gesture’ drawings with a car I believe!  Donuts around the signs and all.  I heard the car squeal to a halt as it passed by a few nights ago and reverse, gravel flying, into the field, pause by a sign, then peel out (apparently in a tight circle), and continue on its/his/her merry, gravel spewing, way.  Ah, the adrenaline!!

-Susie 

Well, we finally got the Fieldwork signs installed in-situ last Sunday.  Hooray! Finally, the drivers-by can have something to refer to when they look out into the field and see a big cage in the middle of it…  ’what is going on????’