Arts at High Acres Farm

I’ll continue to steward and evolve the various projects at High Acres Farm in Vermont, but will now be doing so with a slightly lighter touch, dropping in from time to time, and otherwise supporting mostly from afar.

With some time and space to reflect, I recently put together an overview of the various initiatives that have taken place on our land in Vermont since 2015 — through a newly published web page called “Arts at High Acres Farm” — summarizing In Fragments, Electric Webb, and Linestone.

In Fragments (2015–2021) was a six-year exploration of “Life Art” through a series of 21 rituals designed to alchemize old family patterns into fertile soil for positive futures. Life Art is art that works with an actual life situation: incorporating tools, materials, people, places, and dilemmas that exist in the chosen frame of experience — rewarding the practitioner with the chance to live inside the growing work.

Electric Webb (2021) is a network of 27 “lightning transformers” planted at precise longitude and latitude coordinates across 40 acres of land:

Electric Webb encompasses much of High Acres Farm in an iconic star-shaped geometry reminiscent of the early American quilts that my great-grandmother, Electra Havemeyer Webb, used to collect:

As a work of Earth Acupuncture, Electric Webb forms a kind of power grid or mandala, holding our dreams for the future:

One can imagine its energy emanating outwards, affecting the surrounding lands and beyond with its positive prayers, while also calling in support through the principle of resonance:

Linestone (2023) is an evolving experiment in connection, creativity, and learning — named for the ancient gray and white stones that are found along the shores of Lake Champlain. We seek to bring new forms of beauty into existence by finding the natural alignments between people, places, projects, and dreams. We hosted our first set of Linestone Sessions last May, and are excited to see what unfolds over time through this nascent yet fertile container.

You can learn more about these initiatives by visiting Arts at High Acres Farm.

In closing, I’d like to share a few images of a recent evening in Mendocino, California, where I was lucky to be traveling earlier this month. With a glowing orb of sunlight descending over the ocean, a double rainbow arching in the eastern sky, fields of golden grasses bending in the heavy wind, and hundreds of sea birds careening past the cliffs of the headlands, the beauty of nature was sublime and surreal — all around, and within.

Wishing you beautiful dreams.