Chester River Mud
From left to right: 2 days old; 6 weeks old, 6 months old, 18 months old.
While still growing today, this mud painting was initiated on January 23, 2015. This 1.5 minute video explanation documents the first 6 months of mud from the Chester River housed inside a 24"x24"x3" plexiglass box at SANDBOX Initiative in Chestertown, Maryland.
January -June 2023 - you can see how it has grown at the Johnson Museum, celebrating Pliny the Elders 2000th birthday!
Chester River Transect
Chester River Transect was composed 3 different paintings made from a freshwater beaver dam, at Chestertown, and where the Chester river meets Chesapeake Bay. In other words a freshwater to salt water transect.
Plexiglass was fabricated by Precision Plastics in Maryland. Tiger wood frames crafted by Robert Ortiz.
Because this was my first ‘painting’ not leak, it is also my oldest living piece. If I may, it is a wonder.
Provenance
please tell me it’s funny to give ‘mud’ provenance!
Sandbox Jan-July 2015, Chestertown MD
Robert Ortiz Studio (Chestertown, MD, July-December 2015)
My apartment in Brooklyn (2016-2017)
My apartment in the Bronx (2018-2019)
Mann Library, Ithaca, NY (in a box 2020-2021 hiding from covid too)
Mann Library (in the gallery April-November 2022)
Tri-Societies Annual Meeting (Baltimore Maryland, November 2022)
My Mom’s House in NH (December 2022)
Johnson Museum (January 2023-June 2023)
