tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39226449604767288022024-03-13T06:07:57.725-04:00meet me at the silothe chronicles of small pond artsMilé Murtanovskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00378739255436042312noreply@blogger.comBlogger125125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3922644960476728802.post-31968073027383069822019-09-17T15:29:00.000-04:002019-09-18T08:15:58.921-04:00Silo Heart Banner, 2019<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>2019 Silo Heart Banner.</b></div>
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While 2019 marked our ninth year here, it is technically our tenth season of operation and, thus, this is our tenth banner. During our usual brainstorming session, I joked that we should do the heart banner from 2010...<br />
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<b>2010 Heart Banner.</b></div>
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...but it seemed weird to repeat a design no matter how much we loved it...and we DO very much love that design; it's become sort of our "third logo" (after the <a href="https://murtanovski.blogspot.com/2011/11/small-pond-arts-logo-design.html">oval and circle logos</a>) and the graphic of our silo with a heart banner (below) has shown up on various Small Pond projects (both real and imaginary)...<br />
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<b>Silo logo.</b></div>
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...so then I suggested, jokingly, that the logo of the silo with a heart banner should be on the tenth banner. We laughed. And then decided that it was just crazy enough to work both as a humourous and and appropriate approach. But I can guarantee that our 20th and 30th banners won't be an ever-decreasing heart-silo fractal.<br />
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<b>Gridded.</b></div>
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After the successes we had using tape and spray paint for the <a href="https://smallpondarts.blogspot.com/2016/05/season-7-silobration.html">Triskelion</a>, the <a href="https://smallpondarts.blogspot.com/2017/06/spring-sprang.html">Don't Give Up</a>, and the <a href="https://smallpondarts.blogspot.com/2018/05/snowy-owl-silo-banner-2018.html">Snowy Owl</a> banners, Krista and I used the same technique for this year's banner. This time, though, the grid was more carefully plotted and tighter overall, giving us a more accurate graphic than last year's Snowy Owl (I take the blame for any proportional weirdness on that one).</div>
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<b>Taped and Drawn.</b></div>
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We decided to enlarge the heart for greater visibility and impact, and I free-handed it.</div>
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<b>Spraying the silo.</b></div>
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Krista once again took care of the painting duties in the workshop.</div>
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<b>Spraying the heart.</b></div>
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Old puppets and lanterns monitor the progress.</div>
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<b>Removing the tape.</b></div>
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Next to the raising of the banner itself, this is probably the most exciting part: seeing the design revealed for the first time.<br />
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As usual, the best shots of the banner are obtained as the sun goes down.<br />
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<br />Milé Murtanovskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00378739255436042312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3922644960476728802.post-27805772362024113212018-05-27T12:32:00.000-04:002018-06-26T02:52:21.309-04:00Snowy Owl Silo Banner, 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Snowy Owl Silo Banner, 2018.</b></div>
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Krista and I like birds, and over the past eight years we've identified over two dozen species that visit and/or hang around at <a href="http://smallpondarts.ca/index.htm">Small Pond</a> (we have a few bird books and a decent pair of binoculars). Sadly, owls aren't among that group. So why an owl, then? There are a number of different owl species that visit and/or hang around Prince Edward County, and the <a href="https://www.peptbo.ca/sawwhet-owl-banding-c157.php">Prince Edward Point Bird Observatory</a> does a regular banding of them, so, somehow we got inspired by that (and our great admiration for owls, of course) and we decided to "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHmLljk2t8M&ab_channel=EricCost">put a bird on it</a>" one more time (we previously put a <a href="https://smallpondarts.blogspot.ca/2014/05/the-banner-maker.html">pileated woodpecker</a> on the Silo, thanks to <a href="https://goldandginger.wordpress.com/">Leanne Shea Rhem</a>).<br />
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<b>Preliminary sketches (with saw-whet owl).</b></div>
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The design was originally going to be a close-up of a saw-whet owl's face done in a very stylized, but still recognizable, way. After playing around with a few designs I came upon a different, more minimal, composition featuring the shape of the bird and a contrasting background colour. The face of a saw-whet owl is almost unbearably cute and it would have been nice to see one at that scale, but we decided a snowy owl would better suit the new, simpler design.<br />
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<b>Refined sketch (with minimalism).</b></div>
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I wanted the bird at rest (so as not to be mistaken for <a href="https://www.rush.com/songs/fly-by-night/">this album cover</a>) and I wanted it looking at us, rather than in profile. I settled on an almost-full-frontal-but-kind-of-three-quarters view, tweaking the shape a bit to be more curvy, but still properly owl-like.<br />
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<b>Near-final composition (with crescent moon).</b></div>
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Clearly, the top left quadrant of the design was sorely empty and adding the moon was the logical remedy. That crescent moon went through a phase change to full and now is a bolder design element. Also, full moons on clear nights around here are so bright that you can set up your favourite comfy chair outside and read by the light of the moon, so it's nice to sorta pay tribute to that, as well.<br />
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The spots on the owl's wing tips transformed into little hearts (they already kind of looked like hearts, and <a href="https://smallpondarts.blogspot.ca/2010/06/dont-let-your-silo-go-naked-how-to-make.html">our first banner</a> featured a big, red heart, so that was a playful little design choice). And there's nine of 'em to mark this, Small Pond's ninth, season.<br />
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<b>Blank Canvas (with tape measure).</b></div>
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Krista once again sewed the sheets together and made channels on two sides for the ropes to go through. Last year's banner lasted well up until the last wind and ice storm (mid-April, 2018!), and that was our longest-lasting banner yet (true to its message, it didn't give up –it was killed!). Krista's made some sturdy banners before, but something tells me she's getting better at it every year.<br />
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<b>Poor man's grid (with optimism).</b></div>
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I was then charged with the daunting task of drawing the final, refined design on the very large banner surface. We measured out a loose grid (marked at the intersections with masking tape) and I did my best to get the proportions right. I would have done better if we marked off more grid points.<br />
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<b>Pencilled owl (with paper moon).</b></div>
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My pencil lines appear faint, here, but they (and the paper moon template) were enough for Krista to then use as a masking guide to protect the owl from the spray painted background. Rather than sewing coloured fabrics for the designs, Krista has been masking off and then spray painting the banners since the <a href="https://smallpondarts.blogspot.ca/2016/05/season-7-silobration.html">Triskelion</a> in 2016. The rattle can colours hold up exceptionally well in the sunlight, the rain, and even the ice and snow.<br />
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<b>Panorama (with bike).</b></div>
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We raised the banner, kicking off another season of Small Pond Arts shenanigans, in our traditional Silobration style, with friends, food, kids running around, and a hearty game of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubb">Kubb</a>.<br />
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<b>Twilight (without vampires).</b></div>
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Just after sunset, while the human eye can still see in the dim light, the banner looks like it's illuminated from within. This isn't a very good photo of that effect, but the stark white of the owl and the moon, contrasted against the dark blue banner background and darkening environment is quite a striking sight. Come by and check it out!<br />
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<b>Twilight (with Moon and Venus).</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The symbol on this year's banner is a hobo sign; from the 1880's to WWII, hoboes placed markings on fences, posts, sidewalks, etc, to aid their fellow travellers in finding help or steering them clear of trouble. We found this symbol especially poignant - a message of encouragement from one person to another.</span></div>
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We have been overrun with rabbits this spring; we easily spot a dozen bunnies a day, with lots of adorable babies running around. This cuteness just doesn't get old!</div>
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We've had a few artists in residence so far, and the busy season is upon us with some 20+ more artists passing through in the next two months.</div>
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Montreal artist <a href="http://www.stef-m.com/">Stéfanie Meunier</a> works mostly in digital formats, but spent two weeks at Small Pond working analog with sketching and painting, and enjoying bunnies appearing at her feet while working outside the art barn.</div>
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We made an outing to Little Bluff Conservation Area to check out this wall of drift wood that the high waters had pushed onshore. Normally it's only pebbles on this beach, so this was quite an unusual site!</div>
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We held our second annual Cardboard Camp getting ready for <a href="http://skeletonparkartsfest.ca/">Skeleton Park Arts Festival</a>. It was totally fun and an inspiration to be working alongside such talented artists.</div>
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This year our theme was Boxtopiaville. We created an urban environment with all the necessities, like a cat cafe...</div>
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... A bike shop, with a nod to our cardboard sponsor, <a href="http://www.bloomfieldbicycle.ca/">Bloomfield Bicycle Company</a>...</div>
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...And a Wheel of Fate that was eagerly spun by many.</div>
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I also had the pleasure of working with Aleks Bragoszewska of <a href="http://www.birdbonetheatre.org/">Bird Bone Theatre</a> to help animate the <a href="http://skeletonparkartsfest.ca/2017/porch-jazz-parade-2017/">Porch Jazz Parade</a>.</div>
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And furthermore in cardboard news, I received an honourable mention at <a href="https://artinthecounty.com/">Art in the County</a> for my sculpture, Corrugated Cohen. Sweet!</div>
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Now it's time to eat our Wheaties as we launch into full-on summer mode. If you're in the area, come for a visit!</div>
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Because of its complexity and a severe lack of time (mostly focusing on <a href="https://murtanovski.blogspot.ca/2017/04/kelsey-with-accordion.html">two very large portraits</a>), I didn't get around to executing my idea for an April Fools' gag this year, but I have fun with them (my favourites being the <a href="https://smallpondarts.blogspot.ca/2011/04/vaporators.html">Vaporators</a> and <a href="https://smallpondarts.blogspot.ca/2014/04/small-pond-video-games.html">Video Games</a> gags), so I'll make sure I do one next year, even if it's a different idea.<br />
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That said, I did create some "street ads" for our upcoming Season 8 starting in May that are sort of in an April Fools' vein because they're not real but meant to appear so (just like our <a href="https://smallpondarts.blogspot.ca/2015/04/sixth-season-excitement.html">Season 6 promotion</a> gag). And no, I have no idea how much it would have cost to actually buy these ads.<br />
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I started by designing a poster in CorelDraw using photos of various <a href="http://smallpondarts.ca/index.htm">Small Pond</a> scenes (the silo, bike, and the Milky Way, our first <a href="https://smallpondarts.blogspot.ca/2014/07/barn-quilt.html">barn quilt</a>, and a large <a href="https://murtanovski.blogspot.ca/2016/05/bunting-house-pec-triptych.html">triptych</a> I painted last year), but the key element was the 1970s-inspired Season 8 logo to stand out front and centre. The '70s angle was to tie in the "celebrity endorsements" I had in mind (see below) –plus, I like that aesthetic.<br />
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Stopped at a red light, camera ready, I got this nice shot of a TTC streetcar showcasing the ad panels.</div>
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This was shot near our old neighbourhood at the intersection of College and Ossington (I was heading northbound). I liked the angle and street elements, but knew that the foreground glass was going to make this one a real challenge –a challenge that would end up making this one look the most realistic if my digital surgery skills were up to the task.</div>
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As you can sort of see, a lot of work went into recreating all the elements that would be in front of the poster were it really inside that bus shelter. It's never just a matter of cut-and-paste! I wasn't too worried about obscuring the poster too much (it would be seen clearly in the first photo up top) –in fact, the poster itself is a bit of a MacGuffin since the logo was the most important feature as far as legibility was concerned. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm sometimes known as the Puppet Lady around these parts, but these days perhaps a better name for me would be the Cardboard Queen. I love everything about creating with cardboard: its versatility, its low-art panache, its total free-ness and, of course, repurposing what is essentially garbage into something magical. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">June once again found me building Boxtopia - a creative cardboard kingdom for kids - with my dream team of artist friends at <a href="http://skeletonparkartsfest.ca/">Skeleton Park Arts Festival</a> in Kingston. I’ve been doing these installations for a number of years and it has become a real staple of the festival. This year our theme was "Rock ‘n’ Roll Arcade." Leave it to my awesome crew of cardboard collaborators to come up with such a rad idea. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most of our creations were made during Small Pond’s inaugural <a href="http://smallpondarts.blogspot.ca/2016/05/cardboard-camp.html">Cardboard Camp</a> in the spring. I really enjoy working with other creators in the same medium, because we all have our own style, and I always learn a ton from collaborating with these folks. Plus, they are just so much fun to be around!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A few months later I decided that I should try entering it in a juried art show, <a href="http://artinthecounty.com/">Art in the County</a>, which was a first for me. I was really happy when it was accepted into the show, and somewhat incredulous when I received a juror's award. Then I learned that the sculpture sold - another first. I don't know if I'll do any more work like this, but I'm feeling the gentle nudge of the universe reminding me that as an artist I should always be experimenting and reaching beyond my comfort zone. Good things happen there!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My goal with the set was to make the cardboard look as cardboardy as possible, ripping it and distressing it to show off its beautiful textures. I was really pleased with the result. I loved working in such a large scale, and doing something longer-lasting than my usual installations. I’m now nurturing some big dreams for large-scale projects… stay tuned!</span></div>
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The May long weekend marks the official start of a new season of <a href="http://smallpondarts.ca/index.htm">Small Pond Arts</a> and our festive adventures, and each year we kick it off with a party which we're now calling our "Silobration." Everyone is invited to partake in potluck delights, games, and of course, the main event: the raising of the new silo banner.</div>
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As usual, two people work inside the silo, hoisting the banner by pulling the ropes, while a crew outside makes sure nothing gets tangled and that the banner reaches the desired height. I've always been on the inside, so I'm one of the last people at the party that gets to see the new banner, but I enjoy climbing out of the silo and running around the foliage to get my first look.</div>
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Krista's banner idea this year was an ancient design called a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triskelion">triskelion</a>, first used in Malta (4400-3600 BC) which has many different (and some contradictory) meanings and symbolism, and has been adopted by many cultures all over the world, and designs vary greatly. For our purpose as a banner design, the meaning Krista chose to focus on is the three arms symbolizing the past, present, and future (which is how the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingush_people">Ingush people</a> of Russia use it).</div>
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Of course, I have been familiar with two particular uses of triskelions for most of my life:<br />
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But speaking of television, and invoking the past, I took the design for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOrwJHV6GNw">ABC's Sunday Night Movie</a> and adapted it as a fun graphic for our Season 7 launch.</div>
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And speaking of adapting 1970s-era graphics, I recently created a series of <a href="http://smallpondarts.blogspot.ca/2016/05/small-pond-trading-cards-part-1.html">77 "trading cards"</a> based on the hugely successful Topps series of Star Wars cards. These only exist digitally on our blog (and have no "backs"), but feel free to print them out...if you dare. They're a fun way to look back on our previous six seasons and many amazing people are featured.</div>
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After a pretty cool start to the spring, we were happy to have perfect weather for this year's Silobration: not hot, but not chilly; slightly breezy, but not windy; not cloudy; and barely buggy. Just looking at this picture makes me feel warm and serene.</div>
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Among the tasty potluck offerings were these delicious cookies made by Karlyn Madrid of <a href="http://iconosquare.com/karlynium">Karlyn's Cookies</a>. There were also two varieties of boozy root beer, which required much taste-testing to reveal which was superior.</div>
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People came from far and wide to enjoy the festivities, share some great food, and play some <a href="http://smallpondarts.blogspot.ca/2015/09/stickfest-2015.html">kubb</a> (not pictured). It was, as always, a banner day.</div>
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A new friend.</div>
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Meanwhile, we've noticed a new species of bird hanging around our back field. It's possible we've had <a href="http://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/eastern-meadowlark">Eastern Meadowlarks</a> for a while, because their song is familiar (but with so many mimics, who can be sure?), but this is the first year we've actually spotted one. They're about the size of a robin and so deeply, beautifully yellow on their front side. We've spotted this one in the back for a few weeks, now, likely nesting in the grass nearby, but getting a good photo is tricky.</div>
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Beautiful brief blossoms.</div>
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The magnolia tree that Elizabeth and Tom planted as part of their <a href="http://smallpondarts.blogspot.ca/2016/01/getting-hitched-small-pond-style.html">wedding ceremony</a> held at Small Pond last September came into full bloom just a few weeks before our Silobration...</div>
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So pink!</div>
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...as did these perennial tulips at the side of our house...<br />
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So fragrant!</div>
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...but our lilacs were right on schedule, ensuring the weekend was not only pretty, but permeating the landscape with one of my favourite aromas. If only they lasted all summer...</div>
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Having looked at the past via my weird 1970s tributes and the recently-bloomed flowers, the present via a new silo banner and the enjoyment of friends and wildlife hanging around Small Pond, we now look to the future and the bounty in store that will come from our garden for us to share and enjoy in the coming months...</div>
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Mere babies...for now.</div>
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...and then there are the recently-planted sunflowers which will grow tall, strong, and golden, attracting a nice variety of birds and bugs...and my camera lens.<br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
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This is the last (and largest) installment of the Small Pond "trading cards" we're using as a vehicle to celebrate our Sixth Anniversary as well as the commencement of our Seventh Season. Enjoy!</div>
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<br />Milé Murtanovskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00378739255436042312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3922644960476728802.post-7980892627054258512016-05-15T06:37:00.003-04:002016-05-22T00:19:20.195-04:00Small Pond Trading Cards, Part 3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's the continuation of our "trading card" series celebrating <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The initial idea was to bring together last year's creators of <a href="http://smallpondarts.blogspot.ca/2015/06/boxtopia-circus-at-skeleton-park.html">Boxtopia</a> - a creative cardboard kingdom for kids - to work together in building our new installation for the upcoming Skeleton Park Arts festival. That is, <a href="http://sparkboxstudio.com/">Chrissy Poitras</a>, <a href="http://nellcasson.com/home.html">Nell Casson</a>, Kevin Merritt, Holly Gilmour and myself. Then we opened it up the weekend to other cardboard enthusiasts - and YES! We know they're out there, and a few of them found us!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.agnesmakes.com/">Agnes Niewiadomski</a> and <a href="http://inpaperdreams.com/">Jen van Overbeeke</a> are some Waterloo artists with mad cardboard skills (seriously, check out their websites); it was so great to have them join us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We started the weekend with a little brainstorm about a theme... we soon decided on "Rock'n'Roll Arcade." I'm not going to share <i>too</i> many pictures, because I want to keep most of our amazing creations a surprise for the big reveal at <a href="http://skeletonparkartsfest.ca/">Skeleton Park Arts Festival</a>, June 25 & 26 in Kingston. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We can't wait to share with you the results of our crafty and corrugated weekend... see you June 25 in Kingston!</span></div>
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Here's the continuation of our "trading card" series begun in <a href="http://smallpondarts.blogspot.ca/2016/05/small-pond-trading-cards-part-1.html">Part 1</a>.</div>
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To celebrate <b>six years of <a href="http://smallpondarts.ca/index.htm">Small Pond Arts</a></b> and our upcoming <b>Season 7</b>, we've created a set of <b>77 trading cards</b>* featuring some of the characters and scenes that have made Small Pond a very special and magical place. <br />
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Unlike the fake-but-fun <a href="http://smallpondarts.blogspot.ca/2015/04/sixth-season-excitement.html">DVD Box Set</a> from last year, you can actually (probably...more or less...I guess) print these out if you really want to have physical cards** to collect and trade with your friends (we're not printing or selling them, so have fun!).<br />
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I based the design of this set very closely on the second (red) series of trading cards <a href="http://www.cardboardconnection.com/1977-topps-star-wars-series-2-trading-cards">Topps</a> made for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_trading_card#Vintage_era">Star Wars</a> back in 1977. The red-bordered Star Wars cards resonate with me on a very particular nostalgic level (so do the orange-bordered cards), and having them as Small Pond keepsakes (even virtual ones) makes me feel warm and fuzzy. I even tried to recreate the low-quality photographic reproductions by severely degrading our photos, and I wrote captions mimicking their enthusiastic style. The images were chosen carefully to give a good overview of the first six years of Small Pond, but there's not really a chronological or thematic order.<br />
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These cards will be posted in small groups for the next few Sundays, reaching completion the day before our <a href="http://smallpondarts.ca/events.htm">Season Seven Silobration</a> (May 23) where we unveil our new silo banner.<br />
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<a href="http://smallpondarts.blogspot.ca/2016/05/small-pond-trading-cards-part-2.html">SEE PART 2</a><br />
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<a href="http://smallpondarts.blogspot.ca/2016/05/small-pond-trading-cards-part-3.html">SEE PART 3</a><br /><br /><a href="http://smallpondarts.blogspot.ca/2016/05/small-pond-trading-cards-part-4.html">SEE PART 4</a></div>
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*77 cards including the Title Card (which isn't numbered).<br />
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**I didn't prepare anything for the backs; you have my apologies.<br />
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<br />Milé Murtanovskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00378739255436042312noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3922644960476728802.post-70779416123887393742016-04-01T08:49:00.000-04:002016-04-22T08:54:33.281-04:00Moustache Must Dash<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>AKA a whiskery mystery.</b></div>
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It was a normal day at first.<br />
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A Thursday.<br />
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I woke up, went through my regular waking routine, having coffee, getting ready for work, and then, just as I was about to groom my moustache with my little Slim Jim comb and hair gel...<br />
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I realized it wasn't there! <br />
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My moustache was gone!<br />
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My lip was naked! <br />
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I never could get the hang of Thursdays.<br />
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But what could have happened? <br />
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Did I shave it off and forget about it?<br />
Nah –that's weird and unlikely.<br />
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Did Krista shave me while I slept?<br />
Nah, she wouldn't do that –that's even weirder and less likely.<br />
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Did I develop some strange follicular/dermal condition? <br />
Well, there was no evidence of moustache hairs on my pillow (or anywhere else in the house), and my lip felt fine, despite its nudity, so that's not it, either.<br />
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Then what was it?<br />
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What happened?<br />
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<b>What...in the name...of all that's decent...?</b><br />
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<b>Happier times.</b></div>
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I'd worn a handlebar-style moustache since the summer of 2006, inspired by my uncle Alekso in Ohio who's had a similar moustache for as long as I can remember. I grew mine as a sort of joke just before we went to visit my family down there, but then I started to like it, and it's been with me since. <br />
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Until just recently, that is.<br />
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<b>Patchy tufts of lameness.</b></div>
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Leaving aside the bizarre mystery for the moment, I tried to regrow the moustache, but a few months and several attempts later, all I could grow were weird, irregular patches; tufts of fur that could never become the full, robust moustache I previously sported. <br />
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I became sad.<br />
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I lost sleep.<br />
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And, Samson-like, even my painting skills suffered a bit.<br />
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But, short of wearing a fake moustache, I realized I'd just have to get used to being whisker-free indefinitely...maybe even for the rest of my life! <br />
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So I just kept my lip shaved clean. <br />
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Naked.<br />
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Bereft.<br />
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Sad.<br />
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And then...<br />
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And then I got an email from a strange address. Figuring it was just more spam, I dragged it to my "junk" folder, but something caught my eye as I did so. I had a second, closer look at the email's attachment and realized something even stranger was happening in my life.<br />
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I still can't explain (because I don't understand) what's going on, but see for yourself:<br />
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<br />Milé Murtanovskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00378739255436042312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3922644960476728802.post-16832624810800137412016-02-11T10:09:00.003-05:002016-02-15T13:03:30.889-05:00A Year's Worth of Flowers<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With Valentine's Day just around the corner, I have a gift for you: a year's worth of flowers. I hope you enjoy them (...and I'm sorry, but you have to share them with everyone else on the internet).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last year I decided that I would try to take a photo of every type of flower that I found growing on the <a href="http://www.smallpondarts.ca/">Small Pond Arts</a> farm here in beautiful <a href="http://prince-edward-county.com/">Prince Edward County</a>. I went out with my camera almost every single day, looking for something new. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The project started out slowly, but the first flowers of the year always send my heart a-flutter. After a gruelling winter, spring had arrived!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Things really started going gangbusters in May.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many of these are non-native species, planted by some flower-loving gardener who lived here before us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I enjoyed the daily ritual of walking around the property, peering at the ground, training my sense of observation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The only decorative flowers that I plant every year are sunflowers; it's become a tradition. We've got a great spot for them, and in the fall we love watching the blue jays who visit to feed on the seeds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By August things started slowing right down. Although there was still lots in bloom, these tiny purples were the only new flowers I could find.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And that, my friends, is a year's worth of flowers at Small Pond Arts, some <b>95 varieties</b>! I have yet to identify most of them, but perhaps that is a job for another season. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Make sure you take the time to stop and smell the flowers!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For our third annual <a href="http://www.firelightfest.blogspot.ca/">Firelight Lantern Festival</a> I wanted to build something really special for the parade. When I saw pictures of giant lanterns from the <a href="http://www.downtownmpls.com/mplslanternfest">Minneapolis Lantern Festival</a>, I was totally inspired. I contacted my friend, fellow puppet artist <a href="http://www.maryplaster.com/">Mary Plaster</a>, as she'd assisted in making the lanterns, and she gave me some great tips.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With artist friends Susanne Larner and <a href="http://nellcasson.com/home.html">Nell Casson</a> on board for this project, we decided to make two giant lanterns, a rabbit and a turtle, to go with this year's theme of 'earth.' Both animals are local to our area and are resplendent with symbolism, from fables to literature to First Nations' mythology. I had seen the sketches the MPLS Festival artists had made; they were very elaborate. I guess we're into a more organic approach.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We acquired the requisite materials: 6-foot lengths of bamboo, lots of plain white sheets, masking tape and hot glue. To begin, we had to split the bamboo, which was its own learning curve. Pro-tip: wear gloves! Split bamboo is very sharp and splintery, our hands got terribly cut up the first day. I found the easiest way to split the bamboo was to use a pair of garden shears to split the end and slide the shears down the split. Generally splitting them into quarters seemed to work quite well. The bamboo becomes very flexible yet is still very strong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We started out building the frame of the rabbit's body, a big oval shape, and made cross-bars from unsplit bamboo for structural support. We attached the bamboo together with joints of masking tape. Once we'd made the body, we could divide up the different tasks: someone made the hind legs, someone else the head, tail, and front legs. We attached it all together, but left the head separate. When the structure was finished we sprayed the joints with Rockerguard - an automotive product that is basically a rubberized glue that ensured that if the masking tape dried out all the joints wouldn't spring apart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next we had to install the lights. This was a bit nerve-wracking as once the fabric was applied to the outside, it would be difficult to change them. We did a few tests using a three different types of LED lights: strings, hanging bulbs, and push-lights. We needed somewhere for the battery packs to go, so we hot glued some tube socks to the inner part of the frame, and fit a few battery packs in each one. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We wanted to be able to carry the lanterns atop of large poles, but have the ability to take the poles out for transportation and storage, so we added cardboard tubes and sealed up the tops, so the poles could easily slide in yet be quite stable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Satisfied with our structure, we started applying the covering. We worked section by section pulling the sheets tightly over the structure and hot gluing the fabric to the bamboo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As we needed access to the battery packs to light up our lanterns, we decided where the best access points would be, and created flaps held in place with velcro.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm glad we started this project early, because it took quite a long time. Final touches included adding black felt for eyes; being a puppeteer I know that eyes really bring characters to life. We left the head off until after it was lit up, and attached it with zip ties, then tied a flowy ruff around the neck to hide the seam.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The lanterns were very lightweight and easy to carry. We provided our "lanterneers" with cumberbunds, small pouches worn around their waists, giving them a place to rest the ends of their poles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Big thanks to everyone who helped make and carry our giant lanterns. What should we make next year? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s one of the most infamous stories of Prince Edward County; that of a murder and bungled criminal investigation, followed by a swift trial and botched hanging of two men. The crime took place in 1883 just outside the village of Bloomfield, about a 15 minute drive from Small Pond; the trial and hanging took place just down the road from us at the Picton courthouse and jail. No one had ever written a play about this troubling incident of local history, and never one to shy away from the macabre, I decided that I should. It's a fascinating story well worth retelling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The superb book by Robert J. Sharpe, <i><a href="https://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Lazier_Murder.html?id=_W6KxQdwNdUC&hl=en">The Lazier Murder</a></i>, was a great start to my research. I consulted many other sources, and discovered some of the historical accounts were contradictory, even as told by people who claimed to have first-hand information. I always take historical sources with a grain of salt, and I certainly claim my fair share of artistic license while writing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a challenging play to write. I had to make sense of 1800’s judicial processes and try to make them interesting for an audience. I decided early on that there would be two narrators: Margaret Jones, the only living eyewitness to the crime, and William, a local shoemaker, a character of my invention. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Margaret was a Quaker, and William was a working class man. I had to create distinct voices for the two of them with period-appropriate language. I’d also decided from the beginning that it would be a shadow puppetry play, as I thought this would be a great device to skip around in time and location, as well as a good way to deal with some rather grisly subject matter. Plus I would get to work with some of my favourite collaborators; I’ve been making shadow shows with Guy Doucette and Craig Morrison since 2008; we call ourselves Shadow of a Doubt Collective.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Writing the first draft of anything is the hardest. Somehow, I slogged through it, and in the summer of 2014 we had a public reading. Lots of people came. Even more astonishing, they liked it! After the reading I did a few revisions, and then I met with Craig, designer extraordinaire, to plan how we should proceed. We decided to make a video trailer for the play to help get some funding to produce the show. When, eventually, we staged the play, I edited the ending so we could use the same video for promotional purposes. Here it is:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’ve worked on and off with Festival Players of Prince Edward County over the last 6 years, and they agreed to come on as a co-producer, which was huge for our little puppetry company. We applied for funding and got it. This puppet show was going full-steam ahead!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Craig and I went through the script and broke it down scene by scene, deciding on what shadow puppet imagery we would use to tell the story. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The puppets were built by Craig and Guy at Small Pond Arts. The puppet factory, a.k.a. The Shadowlands, is always an intensely productive time, with hour after hour hunched over cutting mats as characters and backgrounds spring to life from black bristol board.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once the puppets were made, everything was taken away to be laminated. Back from the print shop, puppets were assembled and gels and sticks added. Let the rehearsals begin!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition to being a great puppeteer, Guy is also a terrific actor, and I’d cast him in the role of William. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We rehearsed at Small Pond for a little more than a week before loading into our venue, the beautiful Macaulay Church Museum in Picton. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Our puppeteers and stage manager were the Festival Players’ Young Company, and Toronto puppeteer Andrew Young mentored the new puppeteers and ran the show backstage. Check out this time-lapse video of them in action:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The show ran for ten nights and was whole-heartedly embraced by the community, with full houses and standing ovations. This enthusiasm from the audience was the true pay-off for two years of work invested in creating the play.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Following each performance, Joan, Guy and myself led the audience on a tour of the jail and gallows, just a block away from our venue. It was really rewarding to have this opportunity to engage in a dialogue with the audience each evening, and a creepy and powerful experience for them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am so proud of this production and I hope to stage it again some time in the future. A heartfelt thanks to all the talented artists for their contributions, to <a href="http://www.festivalplayers.ca/">Festival Players of Prince Edward County</a>, <a href="http://www.arts.on.ca/">The Ontario Arts Council</a>, Museums of Prince Edward County, and everyone who came to see the show. Theatre needs an audience, and we really appreciate your support!</span> </div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Mi</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">l</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18.2px;">é</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> a</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">nd I know that <a href="http://www.smallpondarts.ca/">Small Pond</a> is a special place, and we're always touched when others feel the same. Imagine our delight when our friends Elizabeth Fraser and Tom Denton asked if they could get married here! We'd hosted one wedding <a href="http://smallpondarts.blogspot.ca/2013/07/a-very-small-pond-wedding.html">before</a> so we had a good idea what would be involved, and after a bit of back-and-forthing with the couple, a date was set and planning went full speed ahead! The wedding took place on a sunny September afternoon. I'll let these gorgeous photos by <a href="http://sweetheartempire.com/">Sweetheart Empire</a> speak for themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">A</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">s 2015 draws to a close, it's time for us to take a deep breath and look back on an incredible year. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.smallpondarts.ca/">Small Pond</a> wouldn't be here without the scores of artists who have invested in themselves through our residency program. The presence of these wonderfully diverse creators has enriched our lives beyond measure. A huge thank you to everyone who joined us in 2015!</span></div>
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Suzanna Lebec's residency was focused on writing. Hard work deserves to be rewarded, and we went on some spectacular outings, including cocktails at the <a href="http://www.alpurdy.ca/">Al Purdy A-Frame</a> with writer-in-residence Kathryn Maclean.</div>
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Pamela Schuller had a productive residency making and painting masks.</div>
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Ginna Wilkerson joined us from Florida to work on some writing and a host of visual art projects. We went to an art opening at <a href="http://www.blizzmax.com/">Blizzmax Gallery</a> and she enjoyed getting to know the community through attending many local yoga classes.</div>
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Zach Van Horn came to us from Ohio and successfully completed a whole series of paintings.</div>
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Mieke Van Geest visited us for the second time to work on her <a href="http://www.blurb.ca/books/6508905-at-water-s-edge-surface-depth-illusion?t=1446919166047">book of photos</a>.</div>
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Alison Broverman and Katie Swift called Small Pond home while working on <a href="http://thetaleofatown.com/">The Tale of a Town - Canada</a>. I was thrilled to collaborate with them on this beautiful endeavour. We interviewed 60+ people about their memories of Main Streets in Prince Edward County, culminating in a theatrical presentation and podcast, which you can listen to <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/walk-down-main-street-prince/id1003352678?i=357389658&mt=2">here.</a></div>
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Animators <a href="http://www.ruthtaylor.nl/">Ruth Taylor </a>and <a href="https://vimeo.com/aukedevries">Auke de Vries</a> came to us all the way from Amsterdam, but Small Pond was just one stop on their 'round-the-world residency adventure. </div>
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Thank you to all these wonderful artists for making this a summer to remember.</div>
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If you're interested in joining us for a residency in 2016, we're now accepting applications. Please visit our <a href="http://www.smallpondarts.ca/residencies.htm">website</a> for details.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This past April I started asking people to tell me their library stories for a project called Re:Collections. “What kind of stories?” people wanted to know. “Any kind,” I would say, “as long as they are personal and true and have something to do with libraries.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Over the spring and summer the stories trickled in by mail and email. I spent some time in each of Prince Edward County’s six library branches, asking patrons and librarians to take a few minutes to talk to me about the libraries in their lives. I recorded these interviews, and later transcribed them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Libraries have had a profound impact on my life. As a child they unfolded countless universes before me; this early love of language and books started me on the path towards becoming a writer. As a teenager, libraries were places of refuge where I could lose myself in a book without worrying about fitting in. Conversely, as an adult I have re-discovered the library as a place of community. The library is an institution with ancient roots that plays countless roles in people’s lives, and continues to evolve as we do. They are a wonder. Simply put: I love libraries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Clearly, I'm not alone. I've taken great pleasure in hearing the diversity of stories people have shared, as well as discovering the similarities between them. We library lovers clutch a common thread.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After seven months of story-gathering and synthesizing, Re:Collections wrapped up this past weekend, with the launch of a zine of the collected stories. My first zine! These are exciting times!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It only took me 35 + years to get from this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The audience loved the reading; they laughed all the way through it, and many people told me they also found it quite touching. But there are a *lot* more stories in the zine than in the play, and copies were flying out the door! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you would like a copy of the zine, please get in touch with me: krista(at)smallpondarts.ca. There are a limited number of copies available, so first come first served! They are $10 CDN (+ $2 shipping), with half the proceeds going to the County of Prince Edward Public Library.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />My most heartfelt thanks to the 60+ people who contributed their stories, to the <a href="http://www.arts.on.ca/">Ontario Arts Council</a> and the <a href="http://www.peclibrary.org/">County of Prince Edward Public Library & Archives</a> for their support, to Niall Eccles for creating the project’s Dewey Decimal Mascot, and to my co-conspirator Milé for designing the zine. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What will be our next project for Silo Press?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>UPDATE</b> (May 16, 2016): There is now an audio recording of the play! Listen to it <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-345857394">HERE</a>. it's kind of quiet, so make sure you turn the volume up.</span></div>
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<br />Milé Murtanovskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00378739255436042312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3922644960476728802.post-74638247570017686482015-06-26T22:39:00.000-04:002015-06-26T22:42:39.426-04:00Peter Paylor and another Sticky Story<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Earlier this month Belleville sculptor Peter Paylor undertook a 1-week artist residency at Small Pond. He showed up with his
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He quickly found it in a stack
of old cedar rails. Soon the cedar shavings were
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He was working on something…
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During Peter’s stay I was hosting
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Here's Peter with part of his finished
sculpture, <i>Community</i>. It is built from eight pieces of cedar rail fence found on the property; it forms a single piece representing a community of ravens. Behind him you can see another carved fence rail he left as
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But Peter had one more gift to give us. It was a story. I
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“It was the first <a href="http://smallpondarts.blogspot.ca/2010/10/stickfest.html">Stickfest</a>, in
2010 (an annual festival at Small Pond). I sat at the firepit and I was carving a piece of <a href="http://smallpondarts.blogspot.ca/2010/12/hesperus.html">Hesperus</a> (one of our trees that had fallen down), and Lisa sat
down and started twisting some wire and making some jewelry. Another woman came
and sat down and started knitting, and eventually the circle was filled with
people, but we didn’t know anybody. I was introduced to this young kid, who was maybe about 13 at the time,
and I was told that he did some carving, and he was curious about me carving
this stick. I asked him if he’d ever carved sumac before. He
hadn’t, and I had a sumac talking stick in the car so I got it and we
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"The woman sitting beside me asked about the stick
and I said that it was a talking stick and told her that they’re used in groups
and sometimes used in storytelling circles, and I said since you’re holding it,
why don’t you tell us a story? Without hesitation she did. She told this cool
story, and it was about a tree. And then she passed it to the person sitting
beside her, it was a young guy, and he told a story about falling out of a tree;
there were a couple of tree stories. There was a very young kid, and I thought
that there’s no way that the stick is going to get to him and beyond him, but
sure enough he had this great story. All the time this was going on there was a
woman sitting there, and again, we didn’t know anybody. She was sitting there
signing (American Sign Language). We weren’t sure if she was signing to
someone. It turns out it was Mary Tiessen who we’ve
since become friends with and she was actually signing for her
husband, Jeff, who was sitting beside her."</div>
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"When Mary passed the stick to Jeff she
signed to explain the whole process of what had been going on and he grabbed
the stick and held it against his chest and thought for minute and put the
stick down on his lap, and out of his hands and amazing expressive face and
out of Mary’s mouth came this beautiful story about how he had gone diving with
his father when he was a kid and they had this shore lunch and they had stopped
in this cove and it was the most beautiful place they’d ever seen and wouldn’t
it be great if we could build a cabin here one day and they thought about it
and they went to the province of Newfoundland and they negotiated for years and
actually bought this crown land and they actually built the cabin. It was a
beautiful story, people were in tears, I was in tears. Then when he was done he
got so excited he started giving thumbs up and jumping up and down, and he rushed
over and hugged me. And all day at Stickfest he kept giving me thumbs up and
hugging me. I asked Mary later, it seems a bit much…? and she said: he never
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"That was my favourite moment of
when I got to use one of my own talking sticks. I actually told this story to
one of the organizers of the Ottawa Storytellers’ Group, and last I heard they
were planning on arranging a storytelling circle for the Deaf.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Incredibly, this was the first
time we’d heard this story, which happened almost five years ago. It makes me think of the
impact you can have on someone’s life when you give them an opportunity to express
themselves. And at the heart of it, that is what Small Pond is all about.</div>
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Krista Dalbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01021566965866910583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3922644960476728802.post-54702697682822968752015-06-21T15:06:00.000-04:002015-06-21T15:40:56.601-04:00Boxtopia Circus at Skeleton Park<div style="text-align: justify;">
Over the past seven years I've been making these ridiculously large cardboard installations. It all started when Milé and I were backpacking around Europe and we came across a street fair in Lucerne, Switzerland. There were a bunch of large boxes set out in the street, and as I watched the kids run around them, I was like... *YES!* </div>
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I brought the idea back to Toronto and <a href="http://www.clayandpapertheatre.org/">Clay & Paper Theatre</a>, where building these installations became a part of the annual Day of Delight Festival, a tradition which the festival continues.</div>
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Three years ago I started making this "creative cardboard kingdom for kids" at <a href="http://www.artskingston.ca/index.cfm/skeleton-park-arts-festival/">Skeleton Park Arts Festival</a> in Kingston. With each project, Boxtopia has grown increasingly elaborate, but this year really took the cake, mostly because I collaborated with three other fantastic artists: <a href="http://sparkboxstudio.com/aboutus/">Chrissy Poitras</a>, <a href="http://nellcasson.com/home.html">Nella Casson</a> and <a href="http://thestickkid.com/">Kevin Merritt</a>, with the assistance of some great volunteers, Laura Miller and Holly Gilmour.</div>
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We started with a theme: the circus! My crackerjack crew had lots of brilliant ideas to bring to the table, and kids and adults just ate it up. There was a midway with several games, and of course a concession which sold cardboard popcorn. Everything was going so smoothly...</div>
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Until a competitor opened right next door offering cardboard ice cream in three flavours, all for just one cent each!</div>
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There was a fortune teller, which provided some hilarious eavesdropping opportunities...</div>
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Kevin and Holly made all these awesome characters which were dotted around Boxtopia and the rest of the park...</div>
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... with moments of pure magic happening all around us.</div>
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My heartiest thanks to the fabulous crew that brought this corrugated wonderland to Skeleton Park:<br />
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I had so much fun with all of you... when can we do it again?<br />
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Additional thanks goes out to my mom, Felix, Nora and Kate for their contributions.</div>
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This past weekend we kicked off our sixth season at Small Pond Arts with our annual banner-raising party. This year’s banner, <i>Wind & Water</i>, was a collaboration between me and Leanne Shea Rhem, the greatly talented textile artist who created last year’s banner of the <a href="http://smallpondarts.blogspot.ca/2014/05/the-banner-maker.html">pileated woodpecker</a>.</div>
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Following her artist residency at Small Pond last spring, Leanne and her partner, artist <a href="http://zackenny.com/">Zac Kenny</a>, moved to Picton (beware to fellow residents – Prince Edward County truly has an irresistible charm!).</div>
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A few weeks ago, Leanne launched the pop-up studio for her company, <a href="https://goldandginger.wordpress.com/">Gold & Ginger</a>, at <a href="http://www.houseoffalconer.com/">The House of Falconer</a> in downtown Picton.</div>
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Built in 1858, this architectural gem was recently purchased by Alex Fida and will be getting a complete renovation in the years to come. But for now, it is a fascinating trip back in time, peeling wallpaper and all. </div>
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It is in this inspiring environment that Leanne and I assembled this year’s banner. We started by laying it out on the floor...</div>
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And Leanne sewed it all together. Prince Edward County is surrounded by water and is rather windy place, and we wanted the banner to have some movement to it to play with the elements. I think it turned out beautifully! </div>
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In a somewhat bizarre coincidence, I bought this old bike at a contents sale at House of Falconer last May, simply because I liked the look of it. I spray painted it blue and mounted it as an art installation. The bike belonged to Thera Falconer, a former resident and the namesake of House of Falconer.</div>
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Following the banner-raising we had a creative potluck; we asked our guests to bring food that incorporated the "six" theme. They did not disappoint!</div>
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Thanks to everyone who came out to the celebration and helped us raise the banner, and special thanks to Leanne for her wonderful work and use of her studio. </div>
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Stop by Small Pond this season to check out the banner - especially dramatic if it's a windy day - and if you're in Picton make sure to pop into The House of Falconer at 1 Walton Street and visit Leanne's studio.</div>
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