Rose, the first picture

 October 11, 2007 – Cloudy, cool. Under Maria’s skilled and patient curator eye and sensibility, the artists brought their work to Gardenworks today and we figured out how to hang and display it in Meg Southerland’s beautiful upstairs barn space, or at least Maria did. She and Mary Kellogg seemed to have a great sense of where things ought to go. Anthony came by to help figure out where his sculptures are going (more pictures on the Photo Journal). Two of the first pieces were a photo of Rose, which was exciting for me to see hanging up there, as it was the first of my photos to be displayed in that way, and there is yet another new home for the beloved and peripatetic Fiber Chair, one of Maria’s great and inventive creations. Mary’s poems have been interspersed through the walls, and look very nice. I see the Fiber Chair as an animate object, alive and with a distinct voice, and in search of a home, which will, I am pleased to say be my study, as Maria and I have traded for it.
  To me, the Fiber Chair is pure artistic invention. It was an old thro-away table chair, and Maria saw something else in it, and reinvented it. It talks to me, and I have dreams about it, and I am not near convinced it has mystical powers. It’s going to my study. Thank God Maria and Mary were there, and Anthony too, and his associate from Armstrong Stone, Cail Johnstone, who had great ideas for the display and placement of things.
  Art Harvest, featuring the work of four friends sharing their art – photos, fiberworks, poetry and concrete sculptures and designs, will open this weekend at Gardenworks, Salem, N.Y., 518 854 3250, 10 to 5, with talks at 2 p.m. both days. In addition to the art, Gardenworks will feature crafts, produce, coffee, cider donuts and cider, pies, cheeses, chowder and good stuff like candles. The leaves are riotoug. I will be bringing a couple of dogs, probably Lenore and Izzy. Anthony will be giving away concrete coasters to people he likes, and Maria will be up in the rafters spinning. Wild. Mary Kellogg will read from and sell her poems, and I will talk about and sell pictures. Proceeds going to Friends of Hospice. More pictures from today on the Photo Journal.

Fiber Chair and its creator, Maria Heinrich, hanging one of her quilts

Lenore taking in the art