“Rock Rest”, an installation by Dan Snow , at the Brattleboro (Vt.) Museum & Art Center.
He says:
“Maybe because, topographically speaking, the museum area is Brattleboro’s lowest point, it’s where, for me, many memories have settled over the years. Within ear-shot here, linotype machines once clattered away in the press room of the Daily Reformer. And it’s where I went after school in the mid-60s to fill my canvas newspaper sack before heading out on my delivery route.
“The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center is now one of our town’s shining lights. And with the dedication of the BMAC Sculpture Garden we’ve taken another step toward making this area attractive and pleasing to all the senses. I hope the stone seats and perches I’ve created here will be enjoyed by everyone, but especially by children—they deserve to have fun, safe spaces for their downtown adventures.
“During my working life I’ve shifted freely, back and forth, from artist to dry stone waller. With ‘Rock Rest,’ I enjoyed the creative process so much that I built the piece twice; once in my Dummerston stone yard and once here beside the museum. The stone was initially collected from a steep slope on a wooded property in Townshend, Vt. It lay there for 12,000 years after being plucked from the ledges by the last ice age. In ‘Rock Rest,’ I’ve attempted to simulate the natural process that turns the bedrock into loose stone.’’