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Wheaton College, Rollins College BFA Dartmouth College, MALS Has worked as an artist in Vermont since 1963 Currently work includes, installations, painting and ceramic sculpture. Director of Sculpture Fest Regional reviewer for Art New England.

"Woodland Ghosts" came to me as I walked in the woods after a severe summer storm looking at trees which had been struck down. I have been experimenting with white porcelain clay which is stark when unglazed. There is a deathly blankness about it similar to the ashes which are the result of cremation.

The "dead" trees become busy "hives" of life as they break down into decay.The porcelain stumps are merely lifeless memorials to the previous forms until the environment finds a use for them.


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Woodland ghosts, 2003

Charlet Davenport
304 Prosper Road, Woodstock, Vermont
charlet@sculpturefest.org