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“Step out of the planet. Draw a circle a hundred feet round. Inside the circle are 300 things nobody understands and maybe nobody’s ever really seen. How many can you find” - Lew Welch

Situating myself on a vast empty meadow surrounded by a circularly positioned audience of massive shedding trees - this became my chosen studio site for two weeks while an artist-in-resident at All Is Leaf in the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts - somewhere on a mountainous range between the Taconic and Mohawk trails.

A becoming ritual that required a bit more motivation as fall transitioned into winter far quicker than I had anticipated. My proposed idea was to create a 100’ circle on a found site (part of a series involving the creation of 100 foot circles on different land masses, first ignited by a Lew Welch poem) - this one was going to be created as my observation center, from which I would remain still while listening and witnessing the Fall symphony. However as below freezing temperatures brought snow and a quick change-over, I needed movement. Reading Janet Board’s, "Mazes and Labyrinths of the World" and "Nature Performed: Environment, Culture and Performance”, I began moving and digging, and chasing the snow with lines of dirt and leaves - a labyrinth was emerging.

The footage is an excerpt of my process work from Circle #3

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