snow branch markings 2

ash & charcoal with snow, branchings and Earth

photo area @4' x 6'

Valatie NY

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snow branch markings 1

ash & charcoal with snow, branchings and Earth

photo area @3' x 5'

Valatie NY

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resilience

charcoal with White Pine & Earth

drawing area 12" d

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ash/charcoal with White Pine needles & Earth

photo area 3' x 5'

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Deer and Rabbit crossroad

Maple ash & charcoal with yearling Deer & Rabbit tracks, vegetation, snow & Earth/Cosmos

photo area 3' x 5'

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the writing is on the wall

charcoal with concrete, steel, stones, vegetation, ice, & Water

Peebles Island NY

wall area 8'' x 6'

~ at the confluence of the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers ~

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Henry Hudson's crew may have reached as far as the sprouts in 1609 when Hudson sent a small boat with his first mateand four crew members from Half Moon up the Hudson River to see if the river was indeed the Northwest Passage. The islands and sprouts (spuyten in Dutch) along with land along the northern shore of the northern sprouts was part of a tract of land deeded to Philip Pieterse Schuyler and Gozen Gerritse Van Schaick in 1665. The Native Americans called the area Nach-te-Nack, and by the Dutch settlers Halve-Maen (translated as Halfmoon in English). In 1674 Schuyler gave up his rights to the land to Van Schaick, and in 1687 Van Schaick's son Anthony Van Schaick was confirmed sole owner through patent title by Governor Thomas Dongan.

Portions of the sprouts were very shallow, 2 feet (0.61 m) or less, and allowed for easy fording of the river. Waterford received its name from the ford connecting the village to Peebles Island, a name which became popular through use by soldiers in the US Revolutionary War. The fords connecting the islands were used by the local Native Americans, the Mohicans and by the Dutch and English at Fort Orange and Albany en route to Montreal and Canada, being used by soldiers in the French and Indian Wars. During the American Revolutionary War the islands were the site of military fortifications protecting the fords and river road leading to Albany from invasion forces coming from Canada. Numerous fortifications were constructed on Peebles and Van Schaick Island, with the Van Schaick House being the military headquarters. - Wikipedia...

Hudson River<>Mohawk River

charcoal with stones, vegetation, ice, & Water

Peebles Island NY

stone area 3' x 6' x 4'

~ at the confluence of the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers ~

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Henry Hudson's crew may have reached as far as the sprouts in 1609 when Hudson sent a small boat with his first mateand four crew members from Half Moon up the Hudson River to see if the river was indeed the Northwest Passage.^[6] The islands and sprouts (spuyten in Dutch) along with land along the northern shore of the northern sprouts was part of a tract of land deeded to Philip Pieterse Schuyler and Gozen Gerritse Van Schaick in 1665. The Native Americans called the area Nach-te-Nack, and by the Dutch settlers Halve-Maen (translated as Halfmoon in English). In 1674 Schuyler gave up his rights to the land to Van Schaick, and in 1687 Van Schaick's son Anthony Van Schaick was confirmed sole owner through patent title by Governor Thomas Dongan.^[7]

Portions of the sprouts were very shallow, 2 feet (0.61 m) or less, and allowed for easy fording of the river. Waterford received its name from the ford connecting the village to Peebles Island, a name which became popular through use by soldiers in the US Revolutionary War.^[3] The fords connecting the islands were used by the local Native Americans, the Mohicans and by the Dutch and English at Fort Orange and Albany en route to Montreal and Canada, being used by soldiers in the French and Indian Wars. During the American Revolutionary War the islands were the site of military fortifications protecting the fords and river road leading to Albany from invasion forces coming from Canada. Numerous fortifications were constructed on Peebles and Van Schaick Island, with the Van Schaick House being the military headquarters.^[8]

union dues

charcoal with conglomerate wall, electric wiring/cable, Water and Air

Cohoes Falls

Cohoes NY

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"Cohoes Falls [Kahon:ios, Mohawk for "Canoe Falls"] is a waterfall on the Mohawk River shared by the city of Cohoes and the town of Waterford, New York, United States."... Inhabited ..."by the indigenous people, the falls were called Ga-ha-oose or Ga-ho'n'-yoos by the Mohawks, which is believed to mean "The Place of the Falling Canoe." Cohoes historian Arthur Masten wrote in his 1880 history that the phrase might mean "Potholes in the River," referring to the potholes that appear in the riverbed when it is dry. In the oral tradition of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), the Cohoes Falls are the site where The Great Peacemaker, performed a feat of supernatural strength, convincing the Mohawk people to become the founders of the Iroquois League of Nations or Confederacy. Some historians believe the Mohawks launched the Confederacy as early as 1142 CE, though other experts report dates ranging from 1450-1650.

Early illustration (1772) of Kohoes Falls, from the book En Resa til Norra America by Pehr Kalm.

Celebrated by 18th-century travelers in letters and journals, the Cohoes Falls, also called The Great Falls of the Mohawk, were regarded as the second most beautiful cataract in New York State after Niagara. In 1804, the national poet of Ireland, Thomas Moore, visited Cohoes and wrote a paean to the waterfall's beauty: "Lines Written at the Cohos, or Falls of the Mohawk River."

In 1831, town leaders built a dam across the Mohawk River to harness the power of the falls to fuel the turbines of the city's burgeoning textile industry. Over the next several decades, the predominant company, Harmony Mills, became the largest manufacturer of cotton in the United States, thanks to its control of local water rights. When all the mills closed in the wake of the Great Depression, city leaders neglected the potential of the falls for tourism. They leased the flow rights to a series of power companies, including Niagara Mohawk and Orion Power.

The Erie Canal was planned to overcome the navigational barrier of the Cohoes Falls. The original "Clinton's Ditch", the Erie Canal of 1825, was built through the city of Cohoes. The later Enlarged Canal was realigned, yet still went through the City of Cohoes. The Barge Canal, which opened in 1918, bypasses Cohoes and runs though the Village of Waterford via the Waterford Flight of Locks."
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohoes_Falls

snow stone markings

Maple ash & charcoal with stone, vegetation, snow & Earth/Cosmos

stone area 2' x 2'

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vine root markings

Maple ash & charcoal with vine roots and other vegetation, snow & Earth/Cosmos

photo area 5' x 8'

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5XgZGFTsNU&feature=youtu.be

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enJoy the Winter Solstice!!!...

Kinderhook Creek (bend with the river where the children play) Art Installation Project 

with the Kinderhook Creek project I used energetic markings of cleansing and clearing wood charcoals along the Creek from local circle fires… with my intention being reciprocating Love, Peace and CoCreativity in aligning with the Earth/Cosmos energetic... consider the markings as symbolic gestures of pre-historic and ancient origins and present with futuristic signifiers placed temporarily and everlasting with the elements Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Ethers… the pulsing Sacred Waters and wind are life in continuum and are the circulatory system of the Earth and of all of the bodies upon and within Earth…

I applied these temporary charcoal markings at 23 installation sites at 12 locations in Massachussetts & New York… the markings disperse with the winds and rains/snows and are absorbed by Earth as revitalization…

Hancock MA
Hancock Village MA
Stephentown NY
Nassau NY
Brainard NY
Malden Bridge NY
Chatham NY
Valatie NY
Kinderhook NY
Chittenden Hollow NY
Columbiaville NY
Stockport NY

Kinderhook Creek was known as Pasanthkack by the Mahican Native Americans who inhabited this land before the violent genocidal white European colonial invasions… Pasanthkack signifies meeting place… and the area around Kinderhook Creek was called Machackoesk by the Mahicans…

when the Dutch explorer Henry Hudson anchored in 1609 at the mouth of where the Kinderhook Creek joins with the Hudson River he was greeted by a group of Mahicans with many children accompanying them. Hudson called it Kinderhook, translating as the bend, or hook in the river where the children play...

there are many bends with the winding Kinderhook Creek... its' waterbody length is 263.3 miles from NY - MA state line to the Hudson River… it is a straight line drive of about 50 miles from Hancock to Stockport... the Kinderhook has a drainage area of over 330 square miles with many smaller water tributaries leading into it...a short distance of the Creek joining the Hudson River is today referred to as Stockport Creek…

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production tools:
- Bureau of Watershed Assessment and Management Division of Water
NYS Department of Environmental Conservation 
- Google maps, edited with Mac’s Photos & SketchBook
- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- all photos shot with iPhone & edited with the MacIntosh’ Photos
- video shot with SONY CX110/CX150/XR150 handycam
- video with maps and photos edited with iMovie
- writing done with Word:Mac 14.6.8
~Many Thanks with my daughter and her family for hosting me 
during the processing of this project~

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and the Peoples with Earth
2016

omega root

Maple ash & charcoal with vine root y otre vegetation, snow & Earth/Cosmos

photo area 2' x 5'

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yearling Deer shadow sidetracks

Maple ash & charcoal with yearling Deer tracks, vegetation, snow and Earth/Cosmos

12" x 18"

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infinity yearling Deer

Maple ash & charcoal with yearling Deer tracks, vegetation, snow & Earth/Cosmos

photo area 2' x 4'

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shadow dance

Maple charcoal & ash with snow grass tuffs with snow with Earth...

photo area 2' x 3'

12/16/16

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shadow dance

charcoal with snow droppings of White Pine with snow with Earth...

photo area 14" x 20"

12/15/16

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shadow dance

charcoal with snow droppings from White Pine on snow on Earth...

photo area 14" x 20"

12/14/16

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...Moby Dick Save the Whales!...

charcoal with felled tree, harpoon branches,  112th St Bridge, Hudson River, Van Schaick Island, Earth/Cosmos

drawing area 4' x 6'

Herman Melville Home and Park

Troy NY

"The product of a year and a half of writing, the book draws on Melville's experience at sea, on his reading in whaling literature, and on literary inspirations such as Shakespeare and the Bible. The white whale is modeled on the notoriously hard to catch actual albino whale Mocha Dick, and the ending is based on the sinking of the whaler Essex by a whale. The detailed and realistic descriptions of whale hunting and of extracting whale oil, as well as life aboard ship among a culturally diverse crew, are mixed with exploration of class and social status, good and evil, and the existence of God. In addition to narrative prose, Melville uses styles and literary devices ranging from songs, poetry, and catalogs to Shakespearean stage directions, soliloquies, and asides."
"Yet Melville does not offer easy solutions. Ishmael and Queequeg's sensual friendship initiates a kind of racial harmony that is shattered when the crew's dancing erupts into racial conflict in "Midnight, Forecastle" (Ch. 40).^[13] Fifty chapters later, Pip suffers mental disintegration after he is reminded that as a slave he would be worth less money than a whale. Commodified and brutalized, "Pip becomes the ship's conscience. His views of property are another example of wrestling with moral choice. In Chapter 89, Ishmael expounds the concept of the fast-fish and the loose-fish, which gives right of ownership to those who take possession of an abandoned fish or ship, and observes that the British Empire took possession of American Indian lands in colonial times in just the way that whalers take possession of an unclaimed whale" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick



Shortly after the English conquered New Netherland, Van Schaick Island was purchased in 1665 by Goosen Gerritse Van Schaick and Philip Piertse Schuyler under the authority of New York Governor Richard Nicolls from the Mohicans Itamonet, Ahemhameth, and Kishocama. Van Schaick was but one island in the larger Halve Maan patent which included the other islands of the Mohawk delta and a strip of land along the northern shore of the Mohawk River (present-day Waterford). The island was referred to by the Native Americans as Quehemesicos in the Mohican languagewhile the Dutch called it Long Island.

Van Schaick Island was an important piece of the Continental Trail, the route from New York City through Albany north to Montreal, with the river road traversing the many islands at the mouth of the Mohawk River: Green Island, Van Schaick, Peebles, and then going on to Halfmoon Point (today the village of Waterford). Starting on August 8, 1777 the Continental Army with over 5,000 soldiers was camped on Van Schaick and Peebles islands, first under General Philip Schuyler and then General Horatio Gates. Governor George Clinton made the mansion the temporary state capitol from August 22–27. In September the army moved north to Bemis Heights and Stillwater where the Battle of Saratoga would be fought. - Wikipedia

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