2013 Fields Project Part 6: Cathi's Well
On the 2nd to last day of the
, resident artist
orchestrated a water event at a public well located outside
Ashton, IL at Gurler Road and Schnell.
These
photos document her fourth gesture related to water. Her
handmade cups and this public well brought out many folks from the community througout the day. It was a beautiful thing and the water so fresh and cold and and lovely in her earthenware cups.
From Cathi: "Water should be free and clean = that is my the foundation. I was told about this well last year during
by
and knew what I would be doing during the 8th annual (for me) Fields
Project experience."
Anne, Cathi, fellow artist Carol Luc and Farm Hostess with the Mostest, Aneda Ebert!
These additional photos show the sky at the time I arrived to help Cathi set up at the well: Roll Clouds. I'm sure I've mentioned how much I love weather and storms and clouds. These were extraorinary...but it wasn't good timing for Cathi's event, luckily we were spared. Not even a drop of rain fell. The folks at either ends of this front were not so lucky. There had been pretty torrential rains the night before as well..as can be seen below. Farmers were out all morning anxiously checking the fields.
Aneda and Carol arrived fashionably early in the storm armoured John Deere!
The
Full Fields Project 2013 Blog Series:
Part 1: Bocker Farm/Barnacopia
....it was an amazing week on the farm: part I
I spent a magical 9 days, June 18-26th, at the 13th Annual Fields Project Artist Residency. I'll split my recap into a few posts because I have a lot of photos that I would like to share. I stayed with the Pfieffer Family near Ashton, IL on their pig farm, and I'm glad to report that they have agreed to adopt me! ...do you like their license plate?! My toes are the green ones, painted in honor of the week, which was filled with laughter and an endless supply of rural artistic inspiration.
I'll start with the family farm dogs...this is Beauty.
...and Bebe, hard working farm dogs most of the time!
...and old, Tiger - he has quite a set of lungs! 
Lots of kitties running around, too! 
Pigs! I'll go into much more detail about these guys in the following posts. 
Momma cow and her calf...sorry Taryn, I forgot momma's name, baby'g going to be an 'L' name...I suggested "Louie", "Lester"....oh, how about "LeRoy"? 
And this is Frosty (note the ears...struck with a little frost bite) and Daffodil in the background..they were really fun goats, totally engaging and loved attention! So beautiful.
A painting of them in process in my outdoor art studio at Castle Rock State Park. 
Daffodil, so pretty.
Frosty was often 'standing' on the fence like this when I would get in my truck to leave for the day. 
Look at that mug!
...more to come! 
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