Moss Magic: After screening out the county road in front of their house with hemlock trees, the space was too dark for most plants and too cold for the yoga platform they had constructed, so Tony made a menagerie of moss-clad creatures with wood forms crafted in his workshop, hinging the forms so that their poses could be adjusted. Two mossy creatures now play chess on the wood platform iwth other creatures lounging nearby. The discussion moves to his workshop, where Tony's latest opus, 14 large drawings, depict the story of an evil queen who inhabits the woods and conspires to devour the moon, putting an end to its luminescent light. We talk about the creative process, demons included.
View the website of artist Anthony Margiotta at http://www.anthony-margiotta.com.
Marta shares her involvement with Writers in the Mountains and reads her poem “The Secrets of Your Grandpa’s Moon.”
"Littany of Thanksgiving for the Word Savory" Poem written and read by Lynn Domina. (prerecorded)
Other references mentioned on the show:
Moss Gardening by George Schenk (Timber Press). Everything you every wanted to know about mosses, including how to grow them, private and public moss gardens, and decorative uses of moss. Mosses are among the oldest living plants with fossil traces going back 400 million years. Today, we moss fans are cheering for the 15,000 varieties spread around the globe, 1200 in North America alone.
