The Carriage Barn Arts Center has announced a first-of-its-kind exhibit opening in November featuring a rules-based installation project by artist Cynthia MacCollum. Entitled Thirteen Moons, the exhibit takes visitors on the artist’s unique journey through 2020-2021, as experienced on walks in the New Canaan Nature Center, and guided by the cycles of the thirteen moons. For each moon cycle MacCollum adopted a unique set of parameters and made twenty-four visits to the New Canaan Nature Center.
"The cycle of the moon has been used for thousands of years to organize time," says MacCollum. "In this period of cultural dislocation from natural rhythms, in particular the chaos of 2020, I found solace and structure in syncing my life and practice to the cycle of the moon." The project began at the height of the pandemic while under quarantine with the full moon on May 7, 2020, and follows thirteen moons through 2021: Flower, Strawberry, Buck, Sturgeon, Corn, Harvest, Hunter, Beaver, Cold, Wolf, Snow, Worm, and Pink Moon.
The Carriage Barn Arts Center has announced a first-of-its-kind exhibit opening in November featuring a rules-based installation project by artist Cynthia MacCollum. Entitled Thirteen Moons, the exhibit takes visitors on the artist’s unique journey through 2020-2021, as experienced on walks in the New Canaan Nature Center, and guided by the cycles of the thirteen moons. For each moon cycle MacCollum adopted a unique set of parameters and made twenty-four visits to the New Canaan Nature Center.