[notes from dinner with 5 autonomous artists]

To witness a warm evening's turn to the heavy darkness of midnight on an extra wide porch with local food + white wine with the company of old friends--5 artists--is heaven. They'd just finished a photo shoot, so the hand-planed table was laden with a huge bouquet of aspen branches, another of wild flowers and grasses, and little wood blocks with holes for skinny candles. Matching chairs, fancy flowers, or perfect table settings rarely matter. The whimsical objects on the table, colorful food, and uninterrupted conversation made our table the centerpiece of the entire space.

The 5 artists: 
(1 + 2, our hosts + recent MT residents from all over the world, most recently, NYC:)

1. Molly May: non-fiction writer + author of highly-recommended blog, Placestory
2. Christopher Kautz: wood artist--CQK Studio--with functional art that blows my mind
3. Alexander May: stylist + multi-media artist from NYC with recent shows at Ford Project, the Berlin Bienniale, and studio visit from MoMa PS1. 
4. Susan Burrows Dabney: contemporary landscape painter who paints the energy of the land
5. Eliza Dabney: an artist of life and communications director at jewelry start-up Boticca in London.


More pictures of their work to come.