For my final semester of my MFA at the Vermont College of Fine Arts I set out to find a balance between the personal and the political. I intended to explore my father's farm in rural Northern Kentucky as a way to question how corporate farming models were destroying the family farm in America. What I discovered as I began my inquisition was a much more complicated relationship between the farmer, environment, and local and national business interests. I also discovered that many of the artifacts I investigated were triggering memories that I had long forgotten. It has become a complicated inquiry into the way that memory and perspective can shape our politics, and the role that the land, the very earth itself, plays in a complex relationship between a gravel pit, my father and me.



Friday, June 11, 2010

RE: Archetypes

A while back, I asked some of you to answer the question: "What do you imagine when you think of a farmer today?"
Here is a word cloud built from your responses:
I also build a word cloud from the website for the National Family Farm Coalition. I copied text from their mission statement and articles about key issues that they were confronting. That one looks like this:





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