Slow Exposure

Seating for Dialogue is one title that Peter Adams uses for describing a major aspect of his wood design practice – benches.  As you walk around Windgrove there is always a bench waiting for you around the next corner. If you have friends with you, all the better.  This post is simply updated photos of eight of his benches along the Gaia Walk. Continue reading Seating for Dialogue

Twice Windgrove hosted Australia’s national Sculpture By The Sea festival in its early years. Tens of thousands of people roamed Windgrove and looked at sculptures and views of the Southern Ocean.  For one festival in 2001 Jenny Dewhurst hauled in tons of gray stones smoothed by the action of breaking waves,  along with thousands of pieces of sea glass found on the beach. Continue reading Circles and Trees, Addendum – J. Dewhurst

For more than 20 years, Peter Adams has planted more than 9,000 trees at Windgrove’s 65 acres. Previously the land had been decimated by decades of unsustainable farming. Planting trees was one way to start the healing. The land becomes a canvas and the trees become the brush.  Peter – without drones, airplanes, surveying equipment, or google satellites – started making patterns. The circle became the shape of power. This post is a collection of aerial views of the circles and old photos of Peter planting trees.   Continue reading Circles and Trees

Continuing with current plan that for the next few months this blog will house a catalogue of photographs I took for Peter Adams and Windgrove during my 2 month residency, I post a few more based loosely on themes.  These photos are intended to be used by Windgrove for documentation and promotional purposes.  They are easy for people to see and link to.  Click on the photo to see a version that is designed for screen-based presentations.  Since many of the regular readers here know Peter, I will add in a few notes here and there. Enjoy.  Continue reading Workingman. Portraits of Peter Adams Working

There are a number of artists who have permanent installations at Windgrove.  Most are obvious and visible, but Sally Horne’s Moonstone Mandala Temple in the Valley of Hope is a secret.  You can never find it without a guide – and Windgrove is not that big! It is very tucked away in a hidden gully. In the detail shot you can see the 29 phases of the moon painted on rocks from the shores nearby. Click on a photo to see a higher res version.

There are two large sculptures at Windgrove by Peter Adams that were too difficult to transport to Hobart for professional photographs.  Plus, the photographer’s studio couldn’t hold them.  So on rare evenings when it wasn’t windy, cloudy, cold, rainy, or crowded with guests, we photographed them in his front yard.  For you photo geeks out there, this is using a little Fuji mirrorless APC camera to mimic a 4×5 camera. The resulting image is 14K x 10K. At full res you can count the legs on the little lady bug up on the top left corner. Continue reading Budda Beads and Belly Buttons

I’ve decided to use this blog as a catalog for photos of Windgrove that Windgrove’s creator, Peter Adams, can peruse and choose from.  You, lucky or not, get to peruse them as well. These are photos I took during the 2 month residency there and augment the more than 3,000 photos that Peter has in his collection.  Slowly, over these cold weeks here on the east coast of the US, as winter refuses to die, I am culling and prepping images that he can use. In May,  Peter is one of three individuals selected to speak to his 50th graduating class at Harvard. Apparently he needs some photos to help him…  So here they come. No text, no explanation, just images. Organized by themes that he and I worked with over the last 2 years. Somehow the images feel better here than on Flickr.  Its quiet here and only a few people. Enjoy. (Click an image for higher res version). Continue reading Windgrove Peace Garden, Tasmania