May I welcome you back with news of three kinds of productivity?

1) The fat bellies on the field mice, chipmunks, chickens, ducks, lambs, and deer provide proof of the flush of autumn abundance that graces my gardens in the Hudson Valley. Of course, this was not the evidence I intended. I’ve been debating:

Should I erect barricades against these uninvited guests who feast on the produce I intended to serve all winter?

Could I calculate the human and non-human appetites when I plan next year’s garden?

Doesn't every poop enrich the soil and contribute to next year's bounty?

2) Another form of home ‘produce’ grew in slow and unsteady increments over the course of three years. It finally matured this summer. Now it is ready to be consumed and digested. I’m referring to the third book in my eco-art series, Avant-Guardians. This one is titled EnvironMentalities: Twenty-two Approaches to Eco-Art. It offers readers a (hopefully invigorating) tour through the many channels feeding today’s environmental art movement. I enjoyed writing about the artists' bold innovations designed to protect against existing and impending environmental dangers. You can find information about the three eco-art books at www.Avant-Guardians.com.  I’m eager for feedback.

3) The summer also culminated in the production of an exhibition with the provocative title “Filth,Treason, Blasphemy? Museums as First Amendment Battlegrounds.” I am not the curator of this exhibition. I am one of three displays!

Filth: the exhibition presents a show that I curated in 1998 for the New York State Museum.

Treason: the Smithsonian Institution's plan to explore the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II

Blasphemy: Chris Ofili’s “Holy Virgin Mary” painting

Let me know if you would like to hear more about this strange exhibition that is currently on view at the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum in Chicago.

 
Finally, I’m eager to learn what you have been producing. Please post your eco-art works. I will be happy to comment. I hope others will comment too.

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