Byline: Martin Moynihan Staff writer
So you think your winters are tough? When sculptor Margaret Cogswell had a studio in the little Catskills town of West Shokan, she heated the place with wood. She would bring in billets of split firewood and put them next to the stove to be burned.
But if a piece of wood looked interesting, she would put it aside in a pile to keep. "Soon my pile of wood to keep was bigger than my pile to burn," she with a laugh in an interview.
Anyway, the artist got through that winter and several others, but she still follows the practice of bringing cordwood indoors - into her studio in Brooklyn - and then attacking it with her …
No comments:
Post a Comment