Tools for excavating virgin snow
Burnt willow, pine, cochineal dye, cranberry dye, pine tar, linseed oil, leather strap, found iron tine cultivator
A set of tools made for a walk tracing the perimeter of an aerial bomb training site, located in an ecologically rare dwarf pine plain, during the season’s first snow. A small video camera strapped to the back of my head captured a receding landscape and the mark making action. The research for this project began with an excavation of personal memory related to site. And a visit to the Pine Barrens where I used cedar water, earth pigment, boiled cranberries, and watercolors to conduct a site-specific color study.
Pine Barrens, NJ
Action documentation photos by Beth Pogue.