Taylor Swift (Fall 2024)
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Taylor Swift (Fall 2024)

24" x 36", Photographic Pigment Print Mounted on Dibond

*Please expect up to 2 weeks to receive the artwork (it ships to you directly from the printer, so please enter a physical address valid for UPS/FedEx)

Part of a series currently on exhibit at the Jackson Gallery at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury, VT as part of a show entitled Cultivating Our Art: Reflections of Farmer/Artists on Farming as Muse

Artist Statement by Louisa Conrad:

At some point during our first year or two farming, the month of October took on new resonance.  It became tinged with/associated with the fact of our goats’ food dying. All that nourishment in the pastures and woods suddenly halted, pinched off, taken away. And the knowledge of that imparted, in equal parts, a uniquely rich and intense final burst of appetite and urge for life-enhancement/nourishment before the long winter settled in. Before we snuggled up and commenced ruminating on all the tasty memories heretofore enjoyed. That first October was when I realized how much farming changed my perspective on a fundamental level. There’s a deep and wonderfully complex kind of knowledge-of-the-present I am allowed access to when farming. A present that is informed and contextualized by its place/pasture, as well as by its time – the seasons preceding and the seasonal facts that lay ahead, known and unknown. Art is making the acquaintance of (and attempting to document) a moment situated perfectly in its beautiful and wondrous SURROUND. For that awareness of the interdependency of both shapes my relationship with, and my understanding of, everything: myself, the farm itself – this particular earth, its voluminous capacity to nourish so many living things at once – soil, plants and flowers, bees and butterflies and the hummingbirds and bluebirds that bless us with their return each year, the wildlife, the creatures of the farm – cats and dogs and chickens and goats–and now our daughters alongside us, growing and thriving and becoming nourishers themselves, accompanied by that wild and wonderful awareness of their place in the fabric of the whole. I think of all these things when I’m documenting or portraying a goat in her moment – always situated somewhere in the spectrum of a season (time) and pasture (place). Trying to highlight (equally) both the subject and her surround: equal parts in the whole of her life on our farm.

We use only high-quality, GMO-free, local and/or organic ingredients to supplement our primary ingredient and principal flavoring agent: fresh, raw, creamy and delicious goat milk from our own farm! CLICK HERE for list of ingredients.