Pastoral Design →
While most of the process of making an installation is a performance in itself, playing with sculpture in situ becomes a form of collaborative enactment. The studio creates the situation for a consideration of moments, whether interspecies interactions, or constructed objects in the landscape. Collaborating the set for Double Edge Theatre in Ashfield, Massachusetts set the stage in the studio to explore beyond installation of sculpture.
Below are samples of photos and videos of performance that accompany the art.
Felted sails as a part of The Odyssey at Double Edge Theatre in 2011 and 2012
Drawing with Wood
Below, Epitaph for a Barn
Below, sheep and Nancy Winship Milliken in Tika Whare
Below, poet Doug Anderson reads his poem The Live Myth to Foxy the shire at former Blue Star Equiculture
Below, an interspecies and sculpture enactment Shelburne Farms
Hannah the sheepdog holds the sheep near the practice install of Windscape
Farmer Renna with sheep and sculpture
Below, a performance of wildlife, poet Chard deNiord and sculpture for St. Michaels College
Below, a study of Love Notes to Earth, a continued exploration of Earth Press Project: Pledge and development of new work, Love Notes to Earth: Embedded
A moment playing with the rhythm of tide
Walking with Love as part of the Earth Press Project
Below, collaborative performance with resulting prints made from wood stacks and piles. Erika Senft Miller and Michael Zebrowski at Vermont Arts Council 2017-2019
Below, walking enactment with earth on canvas for To the Barn and Back. For this piece I followed the path of a farmer on her daily chores to the barn and back, recording her action on canvas
Below, video of a Vermont chorography, of moving livestock through the fields to new gazing pastures with the imprint of that movement.
Below, an installation of sheep and wool.
Walling in in 2010 the sheep created a high relief for the wool fence made out of their own wool
