I can summon giant puppets, flags, shadow puppets, stilt walking performance, luminaria, floating-on-water-art, and site-specific art installations to support your next celebration, such as a wedding, party, or event. View a short slideshow of wedding photos, enlivened with a giant Sun puppet, bird puppets, and wedding arbor.
Shower by Jay Mead, photo by Carla Kimball
A friend and colleague, Carla Kimball, recently visited our home to see our shower. Sound strange? Perhaps, but I love to take discarded material and give it new life. In this instance in 2004, I used broken plates, tiles and mirrors to create a mosaic in our shower, photographed by Carla. On her Revealed Presence Photography blog, she accompanied the picture with the question: “How is your life a work of art?” Thanks for visiting!
Clyde Jenne and Finn Seville read my book, A Little Farm Story, published by Harbor Mountain Press, creating this video book or ‘vook.’ See images from the book and purchase it for $15 (includes shipping). Thank you!
A Little Farm Story celebrates the hard work that goes into small family farms. It is an intergenerational guide through the seasons of a year in the life of a family farm. The originals are painted on canvas pages 35” x 40.” I created it as a flippy book which refers to a giant puppet technique of story telling that is commonly used by Bread and Puppet. A Little Farm Story has been featured in Farm Fests, open mics and at the Hartland Elementary School.
On Wednesday, the 22nd of September, I launched my book “A Little Farm Story.” It was a warm fall evening marked by a beautiful sunset and moonrise. About 75 folks showed up for the potluck, farm fest, and book launching. We set up 5 picnic table in a line and recreated the page from the book that says “the people eat.” All this happened in the CSA garden space of Cedar Mountain Farm here at Cobb Hill. Zach Stremlau, of Green Mountain Flour, fired up his portable (wood fired) oven and cooked up many tasty pizzas, Peter Money, of Harbor Mountain Press, sponsored Zach. I did a dramatic reading of the book and was accompanied by Justin on guitar and Steve on the djembe. I hung the originals on the green house. Luminaria were lit and co-ordinated by Wendy and others and provided the perfect path of light. Deep gratitude to all who showed up and supported me on this venture.
To purchase a copy of “A Little Farm Story”, click here.
At long last I have launched my website! Big thanks to my sister, Sonya who put countless hours designing this, yes she is open for business. Also thanks to brother Sam for his editing eye. Big thanks to Jesse McDougall of Catalyst WebWorks for helping us build and launch this site.
While I hope to get lots of work form this website and sell some pieces, I also regard this as an archive and a work in progress. All the best!