Wind Farm

 I work as a farm hand on windswept hills and around the ponds and with the animals,  most notably the horses. I engage in cultural co-creation with them, negotiating centuries long practice of farming and agricultural stewardship.

 In much of my artwork the life drawing calls up the female body and its usual locus in  domestic interiors. In this work the life drawing generates the physical topography of the farm, mother earth. Images appear through intuitive leaps: the farm's hills, the wind  disturbing the pond, the many animals.  In the monumental scale of the drawing the physicality of farm labour is repeated. The kinetic energy of the mark and the kinetic energy of the wind are one.

	Silver Willow Farm Spudnick, conte on paper, 30 X 22 inches   top of page
	Silver Willow Farm Sheep, conte on paper   top of page
	Silver Willow Farm Horses, conte on paper   top of page
	Silver Willow Farm Highland Cattle, conte on paper   top of page
	Silver Willow Farm Goats, conte on paper   top of page
	Silver Willow Farm Chickens, conte on paper   top of page