Verde Smoke

When people ask me (as they inevitably do when they find out I’m a full time volunteer) why I do VISTA, I often cite the ways it connects me to groups and people that I could have never imagined I could meet doing a regular job.

I’m a bit in shock myself, but yes, I’m starting my own blog. The main reason is to create a home to start documenting ALL my pursuits, not just my CTC VISTA work. In the process of finding just the right samples for the Portfolio section, I stumbled across a video Colin Rhinesmith posted on ACMEBoston.org.

Those of you from my former life, who’ve called me “Teach” and railed at me when I made you edit a story down to one page, might have a chuckle at the thought of me writing a script and storyboards of my own. What’s the old adage…”Those who can’t do, teach”?

Week 3 - 9/24 Monday – 9am – Student Holiday (really?) I’m on campus even though it’s supposedly a student holiday, and I’m hit with the unique feel of campus when not as many students are on it. It’s very subtle how the inhabitants affect the physical feel of an institutional building. And, it’s interesting how more relaxed I feel and act when the throng of students is breathing through the walls or moving through the hallways. Obviously the light has more freedom too. The light not blocked by human bodies or professors putting down the shades or closing doors.

This week we’re transitioning a bit away from the daily light observations, into some deeper observations based on our readings, primarily from Anne Spirn’s Language of Landscape. This week, we delved deep into discussion of the vocabulary used by language: processes, matter, form, and performance spaces.