CambrianSchist/Wetland/Ravenswood/Millstone was a “live draw” - an artwork that emerges in real time. Painted using ink handmade from walnut and oak galls collected from the eastern US and from discarded copper and iron, this work is an improvisational ink work in response to the site and its human and geologic history. A large roll of paper is fastened to support trestles so drawing is both vertically visible and workable. Imagery brings together inspiration from the site/area history as park, landfill, grist mill, military camp, Lenapehoking, estuary, Ordovician tectonics, and formation as part of a billion-year-old super-continent.

SkowheganPERFORMS 2023, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY
October 1, 2023
Handmade oak gall and walnut inks on paper
drawing: 48x150"