Recurrent
The Farm Project 2021
Collaborative Concepts
September 4th - October 30th
@ Tilly Foster Farm
100 Rte 312 Brewster NY 10509
https://www.collaborativeconcepts.org
Recurrent, plate metal with copper finish and patina applied, 3’12” x 12”, 2021.
I live and work on Long Island in the town of Smithtown for the past 40 years. A lifelong resident of Long Island I grew up on the south shore. I have witnessed the change from a farming culture to an industrial economy as agriculture waned and urbanization spread eastward from New York City
My sculpture, Recurrent, evolved from my witnessing the ecological changes happening to the coastal shoreline. Painting at the Kings Park Bluff where the Nissequogue River and the Long Island Sound meet this past January the wind was carrying the water and ultimately breaking onto the dunes at an oblique angel thus destroying the dunes. These longshore currents are the primary factor of coastal movement.
Recurrent, is part of my ongoing project, New Visions of Long Island, a collection of paintings and sculptures exploring the scaredness of the land and the ongoing ecological changes to Long Island.
-Susan Buroker
