ON LAKE EDEN: REFLECTIONS ON TIME + PLACE, REVISITING BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE’S CAMPUS

ON LAKE EDEN is a digital book featuring photographs taken on Black Mountain College’s Lake Eden campus and writing that reflects on what it felt like and meant to revisit the place.

A selection of this work as well as the poem were published in Pilot Press London’s Queer Anthology of Wilderness in March 2020.

 
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EXPERIMENTAL BLACK + WHITE FILM PHOTOGRAPHS MADE WITH ARGUS C3: SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

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COLOR IMAGES FROM LAKE EDEN CAMPUS: SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Black Mountain College’s farm

Black Mountain College’s farm

Making mud pies with earth from Lake Eden

Making mud pies with earth from Lake Eden

Previous campus across valley at Blue Ridge Assembly

Previous campus across valley at Blue Ridge Assembly

Mud pies “baking”

Mud pies “baking”

BMC barn silos

BMC barn silos

Mud pies with mica and foliage

Mud pies with mica and foliage

The Studies Building

The Studies Building

Jean Charlot, “Inspiration,” 1944

Jean Charlot, “Inspiration,” 1944

The Studies Building

The Studies Building

Jean Charlot, “Knowledge,” 1944

Jean Charlot, “Knowledge,” 1944