Poultney River
Entrance
Slate, Earth
Community sculpture
project as part of the
"Art of the Earth" summer symposium of the Rudolf Steiner Institute at Green Mountain College, Poultney,
"Slate Valley",
Vermont, USA
July 2008
The work utilizes a natural corridor in the landscape, framing a foot-worn path to a popular swimming spot along the riverbank.
It consists of three curved walls, each one between 7 and 10 meters long and up to 1.20 meter high, backed by a sloping berm and shaping an undulating path between them. Using off-cuts from the waste heaps of one of the many quarries of the "Slate Valley", layers of varying colors and angles were built up, using the traditional dry-wall technique. Due to the changing angles of the layers, the wall seems to grow out of the earth and calls to mind patterns of rock layers in Nature.
The sculpture was created as a community sculpture with the help of many participants of the symposium. Special thanks to Dan, Rudolf and Marcus.
