Barn Shingle Prints from Northern Maine

  Contact:  Paul Cahan   paulc111@verizon.net  973-460-5060
I have been going to northern Maine for the last 51 years, and have admired the
wonderful old barns that seem like sculptures in the landscape of a place where
human beings and the land, the wood, the trees, the weather and nature
lived in harmony.... and animal hunting for subsistence.
   Over the last few years, I have sadly seen the old barns falling apart.  Some are
being replaced with vinyl, or aluminum.  The rest are left to fall and rot.
I have been documenting the texture, feel, and energy of the barns' decline by
placing water based paint on the shingles and doing the art from there.
Please find below pictures of the barns that I have done most of my art on.
One is on Quimby Pond road in Oquossoc Maine that is a small barn that covers a well that was built in 1848.  The other is about 5 miles south on Route 232 South from Rumford Point Maine., Route 2 West.   It has been in the family for 4 generations, is well over 100 years old, and used to be a milk farm, which is no more for many complex reasons. (From new job opportunities, to the increased technological requirements/expenses being too much for a small family farm to bear in competing with the larger corporate operations.
July 29, 2014   Rangeley, Maine