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New Woodstock Library Features “Silos
in Solitude” July and August Beginning July 6 the New Woodstock Free Library will present an exhibit celebrating CNY Barns, featuring “Silos in Solitude,” a photographic presentation by Phillips Photography. The exhibit will run through the end of August. A reception will be held Saturday, July 25 from ten to noon. The exhibit is open to the public during all regular library hours. Scott and
Christian Phillips will be exhibiting
photographs of a disappearing agricultural landscape in a show called Silos
in Solitude. Christian describes
his work as “an ongoing discovery of our rapidly disappearing
agricultural, historic landscape.”
Scott says he has “a veritable compulsion
for capturing anything of interest” and is nearly always within
reach of his cameras.
The silos in Solitude exhibit centers on the concept of
entropy, which Scott and Christian describe as “the degradation of the matter and
energy in the universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformity, or a
process of degradation or running down or a trend to disorder.” The photographers capture barns and
other “venerable” declining structures at their last moments of
visual coherence, just before they take a last tip into disorder. “The photos in the collection are stark reminders of our rural architectural heritage in decline, serving to document an irreversible alteration in our rural landscape,” said Library Director Norm Parry. “This is a show no-one should miss.” Also in the show: Flags on Barns
in Upstate New York, photos by Keven Kennedy: pen and ink drawings of rural
architecture by Dru Wheelin, and photographs of barns by Randy Nash. The New Woodstock Free Library is open Monday through Friday 1 to 5
p.m., Monday and Wednesday
evenings 7 to 9 p.m., and Saturdays from 10 until 1. The library is also open
whenever the blue library symbol flag is flying out front. Children’s hour is every Tuesday at 11 a.m. A.C.E (After Class Event) is 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. the
third Wednesday of every month. The library phone number is 662-3134. |
