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andromeda/re:andromeda

Andromeda is the prototype for The Narrowsburg Series of landscape paintings - 

it began with the annual Perseid meteor shower on August 13th 2017 and culminated the following year, August 12th 2018.  Videos can be seen here.



Documentation of the process, and consideration of the landscape concept, became re:Andromeda. 

andromeda




The original "pre-image" painting, 

The Dark Design


This panel was completed in September, 2009 as a continuation of the Celestial Navigation Series, but it was repurposed for Andromeda.  It became the antecedent of a transformation.  


This layered context is fully explained in the manuscript, re:Andromeda




Andromeda, in situ

August 12, 2017


The steel panel, already mounted to a sled, was tied to a large rock and painted in situ. Taped edges can be seen in green and blue along the border, plus 2 vertical stripes that allowed partial views of both the underlying painting, Dark Design, and exposed areas of steel.




Andromeda, 

March 10, 2018






Dragging Andromeda: the Return

August 12, 2018




Andromeda

36" x 42" oil on steel, 

embedded soil, leaves, and tracks

Installation from August 13th, 2017

until August 12th, 2018




Detail, Andromeda

re:andromeda

landscape, text, and transformation:


    

Namely, an interpretation of art and landscape through our subject, Andromeda, in a format similar to building a network of affinities, written with layered details, elaborations, redirections, parallel references, and parenthetical digressions...



(project in progress)



andromeda videos

dragging andromeda:

8/13/2017: Dragging the mounted pre-image "Dark Design" uphill in the woods near Narrowsburg on a path constructed from fieldstones to later become the transformed image "Andromeda," an event that coincides with the annual Perseid meteors.

2 months later

10/14/17: Visiting the work on a crisp fall morning 

in the bleak midwinter

In the bleak mid-winter 

Frosty wind made moan; 

Earth stood hard as iron, 

Water like a stone; 

Snow had fallen, snow on snow, 

Snow on snow, 

In the bleak mid-winter Long ago.

spring thaw

After a night of driving rain, 

a visit to the landscape 

on Sunday morning, 

the sixth of May, 2018

after the 5/15 near-EF1

Sullivan county was hit by tornado-like winds of 95 mph on Tuesday, May 15th, 2018, resulting from a Downburst.  The painting was torn free from the travois-assembly but found face-up near twin-rocks.  It was reassembled and retied in the rain on Saturday, May 19th.

the rescue

On August 12, 2018, culminating with the Perseid meteor shower, Andromeda was released from the woods, 

after spending 364 days tied to a large rock.

the return

After release, Andromeda was retrieved from the woods on August 12, 2018, and returned to the studio.  The painting gathered debris and impressions of nature - animals, leaves, and the effects of weather.

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