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Last days at the Field Station–cool quiet weather, printing late season weeds and plants, working on archive issues for the Field Press journal

Summer Ink

Noni sent some images from the Summer Ink group’s ink prints in the Field Guide notebook from midsummer…

Walking Ecologies finally

Boneset ampitheater meadow oriental bittersweet

finally happened!

Cherrie and I led a small group across the park inquiring about plants, their stories, histories, uses, and futures: jewelweed and poison...

morning work

Some last days of foraging for objects to print in the deCordova terrain–weeds, tree leaves, tree fruits, a few flowers…  I’ll be deinstalling in...

Berry ink jubilee

Berry inks:

Pokeberry (Concord roadside)

Elderberry (Sudbury backyard)

Beet (Gaining Ground)

Walking Ecologies redux

Wednesday 4pm meet at the Field Station, walk with Cherrie Corey and I as we observe and learn about the ecosystem of the park. ...

More on EAR1

Here is a beautiful sound piece created by Brack Morrow and the EAR1 remote station at the Field Station last month.  It is primarily...

Energy Exodus

Last weekend, the Field Station marched with about a hundred people through the neighborhoods of Barnstable and down the strip mall byways of Hyannis...

gifts, spruce balls, drawings

Today Elspeth and I spent a bit of time at the Field Station.  Elspeth drew a picture of the Field Station–note the difference in...

guests

guests at the Field Station today

Final weeks

Research is winding down at the Field Station this next month.  I will only be present one morning a week: Wednesday or Friday mornings. ...

Pokeberry

Pokeberries and the purple ink.  Legend has it that civil war soldiers used Pokeberries to make ink to write their letters.  I wonder what...

cicada

today three little girls, their Mom, and I watched a cicada emerge from her shell and hang for a while on the Hemlock trunk...

goings on

a day of conversations with moms and kids.  so many.  how do you talk to under 6 year olds about nature, climate change, etc? ...

readings for a blind bird

Judith Leemann came and read aloud for two and a half hours at the Field Station this late afternoon.  A few visitors wandered by...

Ear1 Remote Field Station

Brack Morrow brought his EAR1 Remote Unit to the Field Station yesterday and captured some beautiful sounds from the Norway Spruce trees hosting the...

pigment charts

bark/tree pigments berry pigments flower/earth pigments gathered plants to print

new pigment charts grouped by type: bark/tree, berry, flower/earth

todo: inks from pokeberry, Walden Pond mud, celandine poppy, sycamore...

observations last week

observations broadside 0808week conversation drawing today

observations of protest, desire, cognitive behavior, future projects, adjacent trees, and more

Walking Ecologies now 9/11

Walking Ecologies was rained out today, but we have rescheduled for Thursday September 11 at 4pm, only to be cancelled in the case of...

readings for a blind bird

readings for a blind bird Thursday August 15 4-6:30 A moment of intersection between two complementary practices, each its own kind of inquiry into how we...

rain song

Once my son wrote a song about me with the lyrics: “who doesn’t like to walk in the rain? Moommmyyyyy…” Well I am reformed....

printing

Kaila and Julie making prints newly made Sumac and Weld inks some prints from today conversation drawing today

some things going on today at the Field Station: Kaila and...

Gropius

Field Talk this past week:  Erin Poor, Curatorial Associate at the deCordova and docent at the Gropius House took me on a tour of...

today

Brayton Point Protest sign Mill Brook earth mineral ink Norway Spruce borer beetle and bark ink 08.01 additions to conversation drawing

Brayton Point

Thoreau and I went to Somerset, MA, to participate in a protest demanding that Gov. Deval Patrick shut down the Brayton Point Coal Power...

Weld

Went over to Gaining Ground today to harvest some Weld in full bloom to try to make a yellow lake pigment.  There is some...

new drawing

The chalkboard as a conversation drawing is really working.  I start with a basic structure that outlines place and a few key elements, and...

Herbarium with the Hive

this week I did a project with 41 kids and 5 teachers in the deCordova summer program, the Hive.  We made a herbarium comprised...

notes and gatherings

a story left in the latest Field Guide to Change, some collected objects in line to print, and a super hot week

collection super hot a story...

Inks this week

Buckthorn berries have been called an invasive, but who really knows what invasive means these days?  That language suggests objects and beings that belong...

Field Talks: Jeff Cramer

This week’s Field Talk was with Jeff Cramer, Curator of Collections at The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods in Lincoln.  Jeff is really one...

moving to the grove

Thanks to Brian and Dina for moving the Field Station to its new digs with me today.  This is a grove of fairly large...

registering the wunderkammer

have been thinking about how the deCordova and larger site of Concordia can be thought of as a world to be gathered into a...

Map of All New England Leaf Out Project Submissions

At this point all of our Leaf Out observations for the year have been collected. A huge thanks once again to all who participated....

Ink printing observations 70-100 today

Adam printing some Oriental Bittersweet vines what I foraged for printing today Mit printing the dust on the parking lot asphalt

Lots of people coming by to...

raspberry ink

wild black raspberries growing along parking lot median, got a few before the deer (who have been abundantly eating the...

St Johnswort

collected to make ink.  steeping in hot water now.  Likely will just make a very weak yellowy green wash.

chalkboard

the chalkboard this month has an complex drawing that evolves each week, including images of the parking lot, cottonwood tree, motor oil compound, carbon...

visitors

todays visitors:

hanging out in the sun on the vines right behind the Field Station–looks like a common garter snake

on a Virginia Creeper vine down...

Buckthorn for ink

Lots of Buckthorn growing on the edge of the wetlands

  From the dried berries, a series of rich but fugitive colours is obtained; the...

printing today

tho I was washed out by a thunderstorm, I printed these things today: dandelion blower white clover Timothy grass Red Fescue grass unidentified grass annual sowthistle immature sumac leaves 2 different unidentified...

tufted vetch ink experiment

gathered tufted vetch flowers from around the parking lot margins, boiled them for a few minutes, all the color disappeared and I have another...

Walking Walden to Brister’s Hill

Wen Stephenson and I with Henry walking down the path to Thoreau’s house site looking at the entrance stone to Brister’s Hill path at Walden Woods Wen...

observations this week

Observations this week: unidentified red berries, smooth sumac (will be good for dyes and lemonade parties), tufted vetch press prints and ink prints,...

visitors

Lots of visitors to the station today: two bugs to identify very curious people from Haiti/China who engaged in a long discussion about fossil fuels, national...

WORK OUT opening

an invitation to draw what you see a red tailed hawk (?) circling and screeching over the Field Station chalkboard drawing this week Andi Sutton’s pink flamingo...

Nuclear Metals Hemlock

hemlock bark–red, orange, rust, brown 6/3 making the broadside today at FSC 6/3 observations from visit to Nuclear Metals Superfund site with Richard Primack after a couple...

Walk Walden

 

Walk at Walden with Climate Writer/Activist Wen Stephenson and Jane D. Marsching Join climate writer/activist Wen Stephenson and me in a walking event that reconsiders...

Field Guide 2

Field Guide 2 released today

Field Guide 2: 400 Observations starting with CO2 In its current site, the museum parking lot, sandwiched between ornamental gardens and...

viewshed

Views looking out the window and out the back of the field station in the parking lot site.  greenfield and greyfield.  what do we...

Detroit at the DeCordova

The Field Station in its new digs smack in the middle of the parking lot at the DeCordova.  A far cry from the quiet...

On the banks of Flint’s Pond

Last days at Flint’s Pond.  Has been such a pleasure to watch the season change over in this quiet glade, so idyllic and nineteenth...

Stinging Nettles and info on mordants

Today I visited Cherrie Corey’s garden and we gathered stinging nettles from all around her garden.  Now I am boiling the leaves and roots...

6.15.13 Work Out Opening Reception

Field Station Concordia is part of:

Work Out

at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum The deCordova is proud to present its inaugural outdoor exhibition Work Out....

ink plant search

some plants to make ink out of:

Madder    dig pencil thick roots anytime,

Weld, July Dyers Knotweed (at Gaining Ground?) Japanese Knotweed?Stinging Nettle Shaggy Ink Cap mushrooms Pokeberry Oak Galls Acorns Woad, after...

Kayleigh Boyle, Gaining Ground

Yesterday’s field talk was at Gaining Ground with Farmer Kayleigh Boyle.  Gaining Ground’s mission is to both grow food for hunger relief (300,000 pounds...

Richard Primack

Richard Primack came by to visit the Field Station yesterday and we saw this lovely wild columbine right on the wall by the solar...

Solar Cooker Ink

finally got the solar cooker up and running and the sun disappeared behind some clouds.  Hopefully tomorrow will work.  Need to make some reflectors...

Deb leaf printing

Artist, tinkerer, and collaborator Deb Todd Wheeler came over to the Field Station today to inspire and make leaf prints from walnut, elm, and...

Visitors

There are really a a lot of ways you can enjoy the Field Station, even when you are a few weeks old.

Viewshed

The view from the Field Station today…  Thoreau wanted to build his house on Flint’s Pond, but Mr. Flint would not give permission, so...

Liam’s Tree

Liam drew this tree for the Field Station

flag

magenta artificial – brown natural  ???

 

Glycerin as a Preservative

“It is also used in the production of watercolor paints, printing inks, and cosmetics.”

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-the-different-uses-of-liquid-glycerin.htm

“extracts made from Vegetable Glycerine typically have a shelf life of 14-24 months...

more ink recipes

iron gall ink

walnut ink   black walnut ink

butternut ink

lamp black ink

fermented pokeberry ink

shaggy ink cap ink  more about the mushrooms

other wood/berry/dyes

 

bring in: 100 proof...

Broadside: Narrative formats

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Lets Get Rusty

If you want to make metal rust faster…

Method 1:

“Wet down entire piece with chlorine bleach, sprinkle lightly with salt, and allow to sit until...

to thicken ink or not to thicken ink?

Try using cornstarch, boil off excess water, leave ink out in air to evaporate(stir occasionally), extender base will thicken and make more transparent, pva...

Nuclear Metals images

thinking of using the site shape as the form for the front and back of the sandwich board.  wonky, difficult, and awkward.

...

MA Historical Society Broadsides

Some different styles of Broadsides showing an advertisement, information, and the Declaration of Independence. Each have a different format considering what type of information it...

Library of Congress: Advertisement Broadsides

Some examples of strictly advertisement based broadsides from the Library of Congress. The first one is asking for men to enlist in the army,...

Library of Congress: Foreign Broadsides

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French:

Library of Congress Collection of Broadsides

 

 

Library of Congress: Balloon Ride Broadsides

Library of Congress Collection of Broadsides

Duke: Informative Broadsides

Duke Collection of Broadsides

Duke: Poem Broadsides

Duke Collection of Broadsides

 

Duke: Advertisement Broadsides

Duke Collection of Broadsides

 

Duke: Information Data Broadsides

 

Notable aspects: -table and column display of information -no decorative aspects, only presenting facts

Duke Collection of Broadsides

Duke: Army Graft Broadsides

Notable aspects: -fonts -use of image/decoration

Duke Collection of Broadsides

What is a Broadside?

Broadside: The historical type of broadsides were ephemera (temporary documents created for a specific purpose and intended to be thrown away.) They were one of the...