I was asked to make a work here on the land near Warwick, New York. This is the countryside of an almost mountain area. There is a beautiful glen that the stream goes down and a flat area with four trees, one is about in the middle. I gathered the very invasive Buck Thorn and used it with wire to make the lines of the oval and the supports that were attached to the tree with nylon rope. A few days after this work was made a hurricane came and the stream became a torrent but nothing happened to my art. I was thinking on how to support the oval with only the necessary lines. I know that over lapping distributes the points and support. Therefore like the work that I make in the water I wanted the oval to be perfectly level too. BLACK MEADOW OVAL was completed Monday August 22, 2011 in the afternoon. The size of the oval is about 20 by 14 feet and as high as the top of my head high.
Good art-in-nature blends into the nature and can be difficult to photograph as this piece is.
