I very much love taking photographs like this, capturing moments like this, hearing the wheels turning in Ed’s head as he look up at the remarkable and imposing works of artist Nick Cave.

Ed and I are similar in many ways, although on the surface we could not be more different.Neither of us makes friends easily, we both have had complicated family histories and difficult mothers, but there are artists inside of each of us who want to come out.

I admire Ed, his honest and hard-working and gifted. He is freeing the spirits inside of him, and it is exciting to see it happen.

Ed is a dairy farmer, and he lives farming every minute of every day. It is hard work that he loves and around it, he is making time for his art. After we went to Mass MoCa, he went back to the farm and made a new sculpture, “The Serpent” out of stuff he found on his farm. All of his artworks are literally made from pieces of real farms, his and others.

He will put “The Serpent” up for sale on his blog, if he hasn’t already. He and Carol post photos, videos and stories on their Farm Journal every day, if you are interested in capturing the real feeling and emotion of a working farm, there is no better place to star.

We are excited about Ed and Carol’s plans to host a tour and art show at the Bejosh Farm during the weekend of our October Open House. Ed might even bring one of his sweetest cows, Sweet Sally, over to our farm for the weekend.

Ed didn’t talk much about the things he was seeing at Mass MoCa, but the wheels were turning and I think that is clear in this photo. Check out their remarkable blog here.