In 2015, the US artist Jonathan J Harris started a piece titled In Fragments centred on his ancestral house, Excessive Acres Farm in Shelburne, Vermont. Grappling together with his household’s sophisticated historical past of trauma, Harris carried out a collection of 21 ‘rituals’ on the farm over the course of six years to organize himself and the land for a brighter future. This brief movie paperwork his twelfth ritual, ‘Section Change’. For the mission, which passed off on 1 November 2016, Harris and his fellow Vermont-based artist Ethan Bond-Watts constructed a cob furnace right into a hillside on the farm. The pair then spent a whole night time feeding the roaring flame in an effort to blow a single glass vessel comprised of a mix of supplies discovered on the land and the cremated stays of Harris’s mom. This brief movie captures Harris’s course of as he creates ‘a brand new sacred object, distinctive to our land’ from the bottom up. You possibly can learn extra about Harris’s mission here.
