Vermont Landscape

Both Vermont Landscape and Pond Life followed two opera collaborations with composer Steve Reich. The operas were a new genre called a Theater of Ideas, which said a great deal about the world cultures in which we all live. In contrast, these two small works are quiet, with no words. They were both created on a Vermont mountain where I spent most summers in walking distance from my studio. They are quiet pieces except for natural sounds, the frog, the waterfalls.

I looked at the structure of a Talmudic page as the armature for both works. It reflects my ongoing interest in the relationship between text and image, here specifically as structure for presenting images from the natural world.