I am in the process of making MEANDERING MOMENT in a small bay area in the tidal basin of the Moors at the end of Provincetown, Cape Cod. I arrive of this site with the phragmites reeds that I gathered in Truro, the next town where they grow well and are relatively easy to pick. They are considered invasive so I must be careful not to spread them. I use the reeds that grew last year, dead dry and seedless and they work. I think at the site for a new work and sketch in the sand with my finger to come up with a new idea and then set out drawing it in the sand when the tide is out. I consider structure, underling support in measurement and proportion of the geometry. Since I see/feel the site area as rounded, I used the oval for the compound figure; I have used here a number of times before. You see that I am in the process of binding the woven line with jute cord that holds it tight and together. As the I tide water comes in I use it as a level for the work and the high point for where the horizontal lines rests when the work is finished. Then it is magic of a while and to share it with the people who come by on the way to the beach or look at the landscape. It is completed August 5, 2011. It measures about 58 X 58 feet in size.
