Monday, December 12, 2011
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Sunday, September 11, 2011
Irene brought huge amounts of rain to Vermont and the forests are booming with mushrooms. I’ve been wandering and collecting.
Leaving the caps on a piece of paper overnight, spores fall into different patterns depending on the structure of the gills.
Part of a series of posts about a residency at Hlaðan in Iceland.
So there was only one dark night during my entire stay in Iceland. After a delicious lobster and mussel feast toasted with a local berry wine (thank you gracious hosts of Minni-Vogar), I walked home at about 2:00 in the morning, which was the darkest moment I had experienced in weeks. Street lights lit up the sky and glimmered in the distance. There was a thick cloud cover and a huge wind that I had to lean forward into to balance as I trudged home. The spit of rain stung my cheeks and eyelids.
I had just finished putting the temple together earlier in the day and wanted to spend some time in it before it became crowded at the opening the following day. So, I grabbed my camera and soldiered back to the barn with a bag of candles and a pack of matches. I lit a group of them and let the glow fill up the space. As the wind blew over, the room reverberated, whistled and hummed, a moaning chant. 
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Part of a series of posts about a residency at Hlaðan in Iceland.
Here is a series of photographs taken during the construction of the felt temple. You can see how the whole structure is composed and draped over strings under tension, and built up from the bottom to top in the same manner as shingling a roof.
As it was being built, the space seemed to take on its own character, gazing back through it toward the windows on the west side of the barn, I felt like I was looking at some sort of winged creature.
The bottoms of the low hanging panels were all trimmed and I loved the way the sun came into the space and created raking shadows across the floor.
