Tag: Ephemera
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Artifacts & Ephemera: Essex Memento Medley
As we wrap-up the week before the week of Thanksgiving, appreciation burbles on the back burner like a slow cooked crock of beans wafting autumn aromas through the house. Comforting. It would be appropriate to jumpstart gratitude-giving with especial emphasis on Pam, Tony, Glen, Aaron, Calvin, and Steve for juggling carpentry and tree work and…
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Artifacts & Ephemera: Regattas & Ferries
At a time when we’re inundated 24×7 with digital marketing and messaging, it’s fun to flip the calendar back 60+ years to some equivalent pre-digital promotions for regattas at the Sherwood Inn and Lake Champlain ferries (including the Essex-Charlotte ferry.) Today’s post highlights a few quotidian artifacts that offer a bridge into an earlier time.…
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Bowtie & Broken Memento
Bowtie & Broken Memento: Poem Amidst broken memento and fragmented hope, fractured sculpture and ruptured carpentry, a bowtie binds bitter ends. A patchwork harvest of homegrown cherry, felled and milled, cured and crafted, offcuts conjoined, scrappy remnants sewn in singalong, cradling conversation, cutlery, crockery, and nourishment. Sun soaked, finger tipped tenderly, inadvertently in thought, in…
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Creative Collisions & Happy Accidents
A few days ago I came across a provocative Facebook post that artist Nick Bantock had shared on December 30, 2022. The date’s not particularly notable, but the author is. Familiarity with Bantock’s work adds context and texture to the explanation about his creative process, specifically how he moves from found ephemera to finished artwork.…
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New Year’s Eve
It’s New Year’s Eve 2022. I’ve just returned from a provocative exhibition by Shirin Neshat, with whom I originally became acquainted by way of Essex friend and photographer, Larry Barns, a dozen years or more ago. Land of Dreams is a solo exhibition by Shirin Neshat, an Iranian-born artist and filmmaker based in New York…
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Champy Spotted at Essex Ferry Dock (circa 1980?)
Champy spotted at Essex ferry dock?!?! Once upon a time… I’m gambling that it was around 1980 for no reliable reasons except the look and condition of the Old Dock Restaurant, the presence of ice shanties on a throughly frozen lake with no ferry canal, and the incredibly well executed snow/ice sculpture just north of…
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Chronicler or Artist
I really *should* post an update on our loft flooring “research”, copper flashing (aka drip edge) installation, east elevation gable window framing, revised drawings from Tiho that address a few outstanding items like column, stairway, railing, and other trim details (plus lighting, electric, and mechanicals),… But I’m going to postpone these already postponed updates a…
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Poppy Poems
Poppy poems! At last I’m bundling a batch of verse celebrating my favorite blooms. Poppies. Papaveraceae. Coquelicots… Most of these poppy poems started out as Instagram posts inspired, at least in part, by daily snapshots of poppies blooming in Rosslyn’s gardens. For this reason I’ll include links at the end of the poem if you’re…