The gardener's perspective is the perfect loci for seeking inward and reaching outward, for ordering the experience of time and space, and observing higher orders. Garden makers and stone workers channel the power of nature through their imagination where it is interpreted and transformed through action.
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This Thursday I will be at New England Grows! in Boston to present Artscaping: Design and Installation of Land-made Sculpture. The talk will be accompanied by slides detailing the process of identifying the artistic possibilities of outdoor space. Case studies of built works, from conception in 3-D scale models to finished installations, will be highlighted. For those looking to move their landscape horizons beyond the next hill, please join me for this entertaining and thought provoking presentation.
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The Sheep Shed resides at the convergence of two paths trodden into the hillside by many generations of sheep hooves. Three dry stone walls, built from cobbles and boulders selected from a gravel pit, support oak timbers. A light weight network of spruce log poles rests on the frame. In ascending layers, thick slabs of flat stone from a quarry in Goshen, Massachusetts cover the pole rafters. The roof stones are not affixed in any way. They are held in place by the sheer weight of their collective mass. Twenty tons of stone float over the void of the sheep shed interior.
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