MixedMedia

One of the fun pieces of work for the last couple of years is participating in the Green Mountain Film Festival – as an Operations Committee Member, a film viewer and as a participating artist. This year, working with two friends/colleagues who are both gifted – one is a clothing maker/costume designer and the other a wood worker and set designer – we are creating a large window installation for the festival that is a play on one of the early scenes from, “The Seventh Seal.”

In our scene adaptation, Death will play the festival’s mascot this year – a nubian goat that graces our poster, program and other advertisements – in a game of chess. Supposedly for the unlucky chevre’s soul, unless he proves the trickier master.

At the moment, my task is to create a likeness of the goat. Have developed a wireframe form that I sheathed in screen, and am now applying a layer of impressively-fast-drying plaster gauze. Once this is completed, I will tear up about a dozen pages of New York Times movie review add into strips which I’ll curl and apply as goaty tufts of fur. Its really fun!