This project is a site specific construction that was executed in during a residency at I-Park, a 500 acre sculpture park in East Haddam, CT. The project was situated between a pond and a gravel pit, two adjacent, bowl-like terrains within the larger park. The pond, formed by the damming of an existing stream, is a man-made remnant from when the land was used as a cattle pasture. Its immediate environment is wet, lush with vegetation, insects, and larger critters. The constant processes of grow and decay are highly evident. The gravel pit; arid, rocky, barren by contrast; is a more recent remnant of when the land was used as a quarry for gravel.

Witch’s Ladle created an exchange between these two adjacent but antithetical terrains through the construction of three vessels; a vessel for gravel to float on the pond, a vessel for water to be held within the gravel pit, and a ladle with which to transport these materials back and forth between the two sites. The ladle acted as a magic wand, or a witch’s broom, that enabled the transformation of the two sited vessels.