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The sinking sound of melting snow is heard in all dells, and the ice dissolves apace in the ponds.
—Henry David Thoreau
Between 1845 and 1853, Henry David Thoreau noted in his journals the day that Walden Pond’s winter ice cover had all but melted. Today, the pond melts on average two weeks earlier and temperatures in the surrounding woods have risen 4.3 degrees. Walden Pond is at the heart of the American imagination of all that is natural in our landscape. How is this site as Thoreau knew it forever altered?
Ice Out a series of five hybrid prints (utilizing such unconventional techniques as salt collograph and cardboard intagio, as well as traditional woodcut and modern digital printing), visualizes the changing climate at Walden through pairing wind data mined from Thoreau’s 1847 almanac and a local Concord weather station today. Data was chosen from from the five dates of Thoreau’s observations of ice out at Walden and five dates from contemporary observations reflecting the two week later average melt.
Software written in collaboration with Matthew Shanley translates wind direction and force into dance steps. Wind barbs indicating foot steps overlay marks from Thoreau’s survey of contemporary plans for a housing development named Walden Woods.
Working with choreographer Sarah Baumert, wind data from across a century and a half was danced at five exurban locations where nature is contained in narrow strips of meridian and beautiful vistas terminate on asphalt.
Digital media artist, Jane D. Marsching’s explores our past, present and future human impact on the environment through interdisciplinary and collaborative practices, including video installations, virtual landscapes, dynamic websites, and data visualizations.
Recent exhibitions include: the ICA Boston; MassMoCA; North Carolina Museum of Art; San Jose Museum of Art, CA; Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA; and Sonoma Museum of Art, CA. She is a cofounder and member of Platform2: Art and Activism, an experimental forum series about creative practices at the intersection of social issues and is currently Associate Professor at Massachusetts College of Art
Subterranean pockets belching sulphuric gas; silent colossuses of ice floating in a fiery sea; ancient mountains eternally spewing their molten ooze – all amidst a landscape populated by every house you’ve ever lived in. Serena Perrone’s new print combines these elements in an infernal, apocalyptic stage inspired by the blog entries of the poet Craig Arnold in the last days before his mysterious disappearance. A perfunctory Google Maps search of your old neighborhoods confirms that you can go home again, but do you want to?
ningyo editions is pleased to announce the publication of Settlements, a new woodcut and etching by Serena Perrone. The work debuted simultaneously at an edition release party at ningyo editions and in New York at the Editions/Artist Book Fair (where it was acquired by curators from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Detroit Art Institute.
For more on how this print was made, visit Serena’s wonderful blog