“Ocean Meadow Lines” 2019 North Haven, ME.

 “Ocean Meadow Lines” presents a series of gray plywood panels serve as “indicators” to create an awareness of visual relationships among landscape elements. The widely spaced indicators are unified by their common height across the changing topography, and each indicator in turn mimics the contours and repeats the width of the tree to which it is fastened. This indicator invokes an empty space– a missing tree– that becomes a window to the surrounding landscape. When the viewer steps away from this particular visual alignment, it becomes clear there is an infinity of possible viewpoints and relationships. Southern Harbor House & North Haven Conservation Partners            

‘Sitelines‘ 2018   Vinalhaven, ME. 

‘Broken Line’  2015 I-Park, East Haddam, Ct

‘Broken Line’, was constructed in a woodland glade along a 200-yard long path whose elevation descended 20 vertical feet. Intermittent trees on either side of the path supported thirty plywood panels whose inner contour matched its supporting tree without making contact. The distance of the panel from the tree was equal to the width of the tree where the panel was suspended next to it. This space allows the panel to float entirely distinct from the tree while registering the tree’s specific angle and dimension. As the land gradually slopes downward from path’s origin, the height of all the panels remains constant. The initial panels are low to the ground and then appear to rise along the sides of the trail until well overhead when the trail ends. In the viewer’s imagination a ‘construct’ joining the panels in a level line aligns and contends with the lush natural environment. The attenuation of this intuited plane as a mental construction overlaid on the landscape is the project’s intention.

‘Measured Lines’ 2011 I-Park, East Haddam, CT