Devotion
Nichols Farm and Orchard,
McHenry County
with Jeffrey Letterly, Lara Philp, Claire Arctander, Louis Dickinson,
Lloyd Nichols, Rich Partsch, Sam Wittreich, Casey Dickinson, and
the Sheela-na-gigs: Sandy Bykowski, Michelle Ernst, Sibyle Noonan,
Carla Owens, Matthew Owens, and Bill Ressequie.
Photo credit: Jim Green, Linda Balek, and Joan Dickinson
Structured by stories told within the context of a walk through a rolling orchard, Devotion mediates ideas about loss, its effect on memory, and memory’s effect on context. The stories come from several sources including Willa Cather’s novel The Song of the Lark; an obscure North American Indian legend about extinct mammals; a Tura Satana interview; various song lyrics; and original writing translated into visual events: a woman performing dressage, a man talking about the deaths of his wife and only daughter, and an enormous painting removed from the museum and returned to its starting point. |