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Wednesday, August 19, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY

Wire art series #11 - The Bowler, ca. early 1990's, photographed September 9, 2002
Wire art series #11 - The Bowler, ca. early 1990's, photographed September 9, 2002

About fifteen years ago I started playing around bending wire into bird, animal, and human figures and some inanimate figures as well. Back in April I was showing some of them to Kate and with her encouragement we spent a sunny morning photographing them. I've presented a few of those images in a series here and now I'm adding some earlier images of a few pieces I didn't have with me.

Night camp

On my property off Less Traveled Road - The Home Place, Red Rock, East Chatham NY

On Food and Freedom

Here I've clipped a few paragraphs from the excellent talk Return to Slavery: Will you be eating China's dust for breakfast? by Billie Best, Executive Director, Regional Farm and Food Project given on April 19, 2006 to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Ecologic Club - Troy, New York, On the occasion of Ecologic Club launching a campaign to get more local foods into their campus food system.

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