I worked on a few art projects while in the dunes, and my major work was a 20-foot tall seaweed sculpture titled Ampersand. This ephemeral, site-specific land art was created in a protected area of the dunes, just above the high tide line and behind a sentry of sturdy beach grass. It took many hours over 5 days to create Ampersand, hauling buckets and bags of seaweed from the seashore to the site and working on the form during the calm periods of a raging 2-day Nor’easter. I love the graphic quality of Ampersand’s organic shape, the play on words regarding location, and the multiple uses of “and” in the English language as a question, statement, or continuation… I thought of many “ands” while working on this sculpture in the Province Lands of the Cape Cod National Seashore, “ands” about natural rhythms, life cycles, wildlife habitat, access, protection, conservation, stewardship, human impact, historical context, and the language of nature. Look for Ampersand along the path of the Peaked Hill Trusts dune shack, Euphoria.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 15:54:26 +0000