Vermont Studio Center 2020, USA
spatial wool drawing — unfinished
Brunswick Springs, Vermont. A landscape shaped by six mineral springs that have long held significance for the Abenaki, whose homeland (Ndakinna) historically extended across what is now Vermont and surrounding regions. Since the 18th century, the site has been repeatedly appropriated and commercially exploited by European settlers, including hotel constructions, bottling operations, and spa developments.
During a residency at the Vermont Studio Center in 2020, I began to translate the topography of the springs into a spatial wool drawing. The work developed as a phenomenological engagement with the site’s geometry—distances, elevations, and spatial relations—approached through material and bodily perception.
This history remains present in the site and establishes the conditions within which the work takes place. The wool drawing adopts a material approach that avoids fixation and permanence, tracing spatial relations without claiming or stabilizing them. It maintains a temporary and reversible structure, remaining deliberately provisional within a landscape shaped by extraction.
The process was interrupted in March 2020 by the pandemic-related lockdown of the residency and remains unfinished.