wall

aligning with an Autumnal<>Veranl Equinox looking West...

wall is supported by 8 ∞ live saplings cut at a 10' height... trimmed orbed atop the posts have budded... I started cutting 4/20/16 after many months of being with the site/space and the basic wall concept that preceded the present turmoil with our border with Mexico… walls we build within ourselves and others has been around for me since crib time I'll assume and reading Robert Frost with elementary school... 

wall marks transitional states...

there are another 8 ∞ live woody Liana (vine) sp. that I've cut back from about 14' above ground...  they grew to the tops of an elder Eastern Hemlock Tsuga canadensis on the left and an elder Silver Maple Acer saccharinum on the right, each 2' in diameter… I've bound, and drawn, with the trimmed Liana giving support to the wall and providing line, shape line and form to the wall with their freshly pruned new growth. the wall will provide a new dynamic to the S<>N West side property fence already in place helping to provide structural support with it's metal grid construct. the wall will provide habitat for birds, insects and other critters as well provide a wind and an energy break with the homeowners' fire pit area about 30' East of the wall. more of the remaining undergrowth will be cut away with some being used in creating the wall. I'll be adding more with it as it develops and the homeowner, their family and friends will participate creatively with wall adding pots, pans, cups and color glass bottles, bed stand, anything wood, metal, stone, plants, cloth, feathers, etc. and free passage to the other side ...

days 49 = 51

originally "Shawangunk Ridge"

oil paints on papered masonite

26" x 36"

painted @1980

New Paltz NY

release with Tillson NY

June 2019

the paper mounted with the masonite came undone, the toxic adhesive I used is breaking down invisibly within the old structure... I moved this piece to a new location 6/7/19... with day 50 a cast of pareidolia appear; angelic images, animal beings Rabbit, Fox, etc. and geometric and calligraphic formations with light and dark... I took one photo and my cell camera produced two separate photos from the one shot, one much darker with the lighter photo...

Love & Peace with CoCreativity

~ Elements are Life ~

6/10/19

10/21/16

since installing Maple wall piece grid dream bedstand with wall green tape

has peeled away leaving the grid dream with writing/marking...

Love & Peace with CoCreativity

Elements are Life

days 38 = 41

originally "Shawangunk Ridge"

oil paints on papered masonite

26" x 36"

painted @1980

New Paltz NY

release with Tillson NY May/June 2019

the paper mounted with the masonite is coming undone, the toxic adhesive I used is breaking down invisibly within the old structure... 

Love & Peace with CoCreativity

~ Elements are Life ~

days 31 - 34

originally "Shawangunk Ridge"

oil paints on papered masonite

26" x 36"

painted @1980

New Paltz NY

release with Tillson NY May 2019

Love & Peace with CoCreativity

~ Elements are Life ~

days 23 - 26

originally "Shawangunk Ridge"

oil paints on papered masonite

26" x 36"

painted @1980

New Paltz NY

release with Tillson NY May 2019

Love & Peace with CoCreativity

~ Elements are Life ~

days 16 - 19

originally "Shawangunk Ridge"

oil paints on papered masonite

26" x 36"

painted @1980

New Paltz NY

release with Tillson NY

we always hear "the fork in the road" as a point of decision when one action will take or took us in one direction and we are left not knowing where the other direction may have taken us... this morning while traveling up the fork, or is that down the fork?. we are on one tine and will meet a point where all the tines meet the stem and the image becomes unifying...

Love & Peace with CoCreativity

~ Elements are Life ~

days 11 - 14

originally "Shawangunk Ridge"

oil paints on papered masonite

26" x 36"

painted @1980

New Paltz NY

release with Tillson NY

We are integral with Nature

Love & Peace with CoCreativity

~ Elements are Life ~

originally "Shawangunk Ridge"

oil paints on papered masonite

26" x 36"

painted @1980

New Paltz NY

release with Tillson NY

certain vertical line shapes are created where paper lifted away from masonite paneling with my amateurish inconsistent mounting placement of adhesive between paper and masonite panel, though I wasn't building the structure to be out upon the ground and it didn't bubble until left out... pooling of Water from rains apparent with Water lines near inside edges of painting... Blue tint appears with cloudy/rainy and Yellow tint with Sun[ny] days between Spring rains... 

Love & Peace with CoCreativity

Elements are Life

wall

Spring 

4/23/2019

South West

West

North West

wall is supported by 8 ∞ live saplings cut at a 10' height... trimmed orbed atop the posts have budded... I started cutting 4/20/16 after many months of being with the site/space and the basic wall concept that preceded the present turmoil with our border with Mexico… walls we build within ourselves and others has been around for me since crib time I'll assume and reading Robert Frost with elementary school... 
wall marks transitional states...

there are another 8 ∞ live woody Liana (vine) sp. that I've cut back from about 14' above ground...  they grew to the tops of an elder Eastern Hemlock Tsuga canadensis on the left and an elder Silver Maple Acer saccharinum on the right, each 2' in diameter… I've bound, and drawn, with the trimmed Liana giving support to the wall and providing line, shape line and form to the wall with their freshly pruned new growth. the wall will provide a new dynamic to the S<>N West side property fence already in place helping to provide structural support with it's metal grid construct. the wall will provide habitat for birds, insects and other critters as well provide a wind and an energy break with the homeowners' fire pit area about 30' East of the wall. more of the remaining undergrowth will be cut away with some being used in creating the wall. I'll be adding more with it as it develops and the homeowner, their family and friends will participate creatively with wall adding pots, pans, cups and color glass bottles, bed stand, anything wood, metal, stone, plants, cloth, feathers, etc. and free passage to the other side ...

post of 5/23/16; http://gregpatch.blogspot.com/2016/05/wall-living-installation-collaborative.html

Mending Wall

Robert Frost 

published 1914

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,

That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,

And spills the upper boulders in the sun;

And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.

The work of hunters is another thing:

I have come after them and made repair

Where they have left not one stone on a stone,

But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,

To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,

No one has seen them made or heard them made,

But at spring mending-time we find them there.

I let my neighbour know beyond the hill;

And on a day we meet to walk the line

And set the wall between us once again.

We keep the wall between us as we go.

To each the boulders that have fallen to each.

And some are loaves and some so nearly balls

We have to use a spell to make them balance:

"Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"

We wear our fingers rough with handling them.

Oh, just another kind of out-door game,

One on a side. It comes to little more:

There where it is we do not need the wall:

He is all pine and I am apple orchard.

My apple trees will never get across

And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.

He only says, "Good fences make good neighbours."

Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder

If I could put a notion in his head:

"Why do they make good neighbours? Isn't it

Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know

What I was walling in or walling out,

And to whom I was like to give offence.

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,

That wants it down." I could say "Elves" to him,

But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather

He said it for himself. I see him there

Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top

In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.

He moves in darkness as it seems to me,

Not of woods only and the shade of trees.

He will not go behind his father's saying,

And he likes having thought of it so well

He says again, "Good fences make good neighbours."

Love & Peace with CoCreativity

~ Elements are Life ~

wall is supported by 8 ∞ live saplings cut at a 10' height... I started cutting 4/20/16 after many months of being with the site/space and the basic concept… there are another 8 ∞ live woody Liana (vine) sp. that I've cut back from about 14' above ground...  they grew to the tops of an elder Eastern Hemlock Tsuga canadensis on the left and an elder Silver Maple Acer saccharinum on the right, each 2' in diameter… I've bound, and drawn, with the trimmed Liana giving support to the wall and providing line, shape line and form to the wall with their freshly pruned new growth. the wall will provide a new dynamic to the S<>N West side property fence already in place helping to provide structural support with it's metal grid construct. the wall will provide habitat for birds, insects and other critters as well provide a wind and an energy break with the homeowners' fire pit area about 30' East of the wall. more of the remaining undergrowth will be cut away with some being used in creating the wall. I'll be adding more with it as it develops and the homeowner, their family and friends will participate creatively with wall...

post of 5/23/16; http://gregpatch.blogspot.com/2016/05/wall-living-installation-collaborative.html

Love, Peace & Co Creativity

~~~~Water is Life~~~~

wall

a living installation...

Tillson NY

9/2/18

North end

South end

wall is supported by 8 ∞ live saplings cut at a 10' height... I started cutting 4/20/16 after many months of being with the site/space and the basic concept… there are another 8 ∞ live woody Liana (vine) sp. that I've cut back from about 14' above ground...  they grew to the tops of an elder Eastern Hemlock Tsuga canadensis on the left and an elder Silver Maple Acer saccharinum on the right, each 2' in diameter… I've bound, and drawn, with the trimmed Liana giving support to the wall and providing line, shape line and form to the wall with their freshly pruned new growth. the wall will provide a new dynamic to the S<>N West side property fence already in place helping to provide structural support with it's metal grid construct. the wall will provide habitat for birds, insects and other critters as well provide a wind and an energy break with the homeowners' fire pit area about 30' East of the wall. more of the remaining undergrowth will be cut away with some being used in creating the wall. I'll be adding more Wood, Metal and Earth materials with it as it develops... the homeowner, their family and friends will participate creatively with wall...

Love, Peace and CoCreativity

~~~~ Water Is Life ~~~~

wall installation (Spring 2018)

with Pileated Woodpecker, Squirrel and Daffodils...

Tillson NY

the squirrel nonchalantly "grazed" its' way over next to the Pileated, 

then charged and bumped it to fly away... 

this was the second day in a row this played out, squirrel attacks Pileated...

 and this time I had my cell digital... 

wall is supported by 8 ∞ live saplings cut at a 10' height... I started cutting 4/20/16 after many months of being with the site/space and the basic concept… there are another 8 ∞ live woody Liana (vine) sp. that I've cut back from about 14' above ground...  they grew to the tops of an elder Eastern Hemlock Tsuga canadensis on the left and an elder Silver Maple Acer saccharinum on the right, each 2' in diameter… I've bound, and drawn, with the trimmed Liana giving support to the wall and providing line, shape line and form to the wall with their freshly pruned new growth. the wall will provide a new dynamic to the S<>N West side property fence already in place helping to provide structural support with it's metal grid construct. the wall will provide habitat for birds, insects and other critters as well provide a wind and an energy break with the homeowners' fire pit area about 30' East of the wall. more of the remaining undergrowth will be cut away with some being used in creating the wall. I'll be adding more with it as it develops and the homeowner, their family and friends will participate creatively with wall...

post of 5/23/16; http://gregpatch.blogspot.com/2016/05/wall-living-installation-collaborative.html

Love, Peace & CoCreativity

~ Water is Life ~