andromeda / 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

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.

andromeda/re:andromeda