I saved all the skins from the tomatoes I canned this fall and coated them in wax. They are beautiful little objects and I’ve been playing around with different configurations of them. So far they look pretty but I’m not sold on any of it. It might just be that I’ll set these aside for [...]
Posts Tagged ‘canning’
gimme some skin
Posted in fall 09, installations, tomatoes, tagged art, canning, dry, installation, skin, tomato, tomatoes, wax on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
abundance canning project
Posted in fall 09, installations, sculpture, tagged art, canning, farmer, mason jar, nc, rachel herrick, raleigh, tomato on November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On the long drive back to NC from Maine after the summer intensive I had plenty of time to think about WHY I was making work about farming. Am I really that sad or surprised that farming is going away? No, not specifically farming, I decided. The essence of my own emotional response to the [...]
