Residency

today I’m setting the table for
my friend’s indigo dyeing class
studio visit
 
walking around the table so many to thank,
including--
-india flint at haystack for her ecoprinting class 
-norte maar & Jason Andrew for showing ‘a year’s worth’
-and later bewilder work with catalog
-everyone that taught & talked to me about natural dyes
-working at Naumkeag with their amazing flower gardens
-being a TA for Kathy Hattori at Haystack and dyeing with
            so many talented dyers
-learning that Shakers wore ‘any color they could dye’ as 
            an artist in residence at Hancock with Smp
-showing not once but twice with like-minded artists
            interested in the Shakers, organized by Albany airport & Eric
-performing meetinghouse with miram at a moonbow event
and later eal publishing it and then adding a podcast
-working with curator Christie Jackson & all at Fruitlands on
‘anything but drab’
 
often one thing leads to another
oftentimes it's just someone’s faith in your work
or just willing to say yes to something never done
but always, I am filled with so much gratitude to all.
Thank you. 

“a book is a small building”*
 
 
 
within
folds
structures
 
a village
unfolds
 
utopian
colors
collide
 
into a
spectrum

book spines at Historic Deerfield during color research Fellowship using the Stephen L. Wolf Collection. 

ot all color research is in color
 
it all started with Newton
 
celebrating
black & white
circles 
diagrams
charts
images
 
from the Stephen L Wolf Collection
aka over 1,200 books on colour
at Historic Deerfield Memorial 
Library Special Collections
 
--Sir Isaac Newton, OPTICKS:  A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light, 1718
 
--OPTICKS, rainbows in landscape, note tufts of grass
 
--Ogden Rood, Students Text-book on Color, 1881
 
--Chevreul, The laws and contrast of colors, 1859, 3D!
 
--Vanderwalker, The Mixing of Colors and Paints, 1924
 
--Bonnie Snow and Hugo Froehlich, The Theory and Practice of Color, 1920
 
--Albert Munsell, A Grammar of Color, edited by Faber Birren, 1969
 
--Chevreul, Des couleurs et des leurs applications, 1864.
 
--J W Mausury, Hints on House Painting, 1868, and the invention of the paint can!
 
--Mrs. Merrifield’s the first to translate Cennino Cennini into English, 1844
 
& ends with Newton’s Sun Beam from OPTICKS

[all images from the books in the Stephen L. Wolf Collection, Memorial Library, Historic Deerfield]

a scheme of colors

A project; a contrivance; a plan of something to be done; a design.  Thus we may say to form, a scheme, to lay a scheme, to contrive.

A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies.

I’m scheming in colors.
I’m arranging folders.
I’m packing poems into suitcases.
I’m lining up little watercolor tins

I’ll be scheming in colors as a Library Research Fellow
at Historic Deerfield using their Wolf Color book collection

 [Moses Harris, ‘scheme of colours’ found in Alexandra Loske’s ‘The Book of Colour Concepts ]

[scheme definition 1828 Websters]

“We look closely at the magic mirror, stand back from it, try to empty our minds of all else, strive to grasp the meaning of every colour, each one of which brings to mind memories of past impressions, which arrange themselves in an architecture as immortal and varied as the colours on the canvas, and build up our imagination, a landscape.”


images for ‘prismatic utopia’ taken at New Lebanon, Fruitlands, Hancock, Canterbury, Winterthur & many studios in between
 
[quote | Marcel Proust on Art and Literature 1896-1919,’ translated by Sylvia Townsend Warner]

a collection of yellows
a survey of yellowed


swifts
chair backs
painted pages
dippers
buckets
Brethren workshop
stair wells and walls
& a former Shaker Office building

‘anything but drab’ opens inside that yellow office building on May 1 at Fruitlands Museum

[swifts, chair back, dipper and bucket Shaker Museum | New Lebanon; book page from 'Shaker Furniture Makers' by Jerry Grant & Douglas Allen; Brethren's Workshop and stairs Enfield Shaker Museum; former Harvard Shaker community office structure now at Fruitlands Museum]

SkyDay Residency Report
Bascom Lodge 13 October

a small handheld book
folded from one sheet
of Fabriano paper
holds colors within
a greyed horizon --

“So mountains are languages
and languages are mountains.”
Etal Adnan from 'Surge’

To live at the horizon becomes
larger than mountain & sky

where poems reside

on lichen lined limbs
within sodden forest floors
on mountains, in valleys
in between clouds and sky

color from
the valley
the greyed sky
the pelting rain
dawn dusk

Thank you Monika Sosnowsk and Peter Dudek
for inviting me up to Bascom Lodge for a swell day
of looking, painting and writing.  Thanks to the 
dinner guests that listened while I read Anne Carson,
Ada Limon, Thoreau and a few of my poems.

[images of residency book, early orange dawn sky, atop the memorial tower, the valley, the lodge, the rain at the end of the day]

SkyDay


Mt. Greylock Residency
Sunday October 13, 2024
dawn to dusk
poetry reading 4pm



On Sunday October 13, 2024, Brece Honeycutt will have a skyday artist residency at Bascom Lodge on Mt. Greylock.

Honeycutt continues to be fascinated by clouds and the ever-changing sky.  Seconds compounded into minutes often bring quick sky changes.  Contrasted with lingering, long lasting blues punctuated with wisps of white clouds.  And yet, grey upon yellowgrey upon orangegrey into pinkgrey can be both grim and great, depending. 

Whilst on top of Mt. Greylock, she will observe and translate onto paper with words and watercolor the skyday.  At 4pm, she will read prose and poetry related to clouds, including poems from her forthcoming chapbook, pink grey blue sky cloud.

Thanks to Monika Sosnowski and Peter Dudek for inviting me to Bascom Lodge for a residency atop Mt. Greylock. 

For information on Bascom Lodge, click HERE.