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- © Sue D’Arcy Fuller, “The Stars of Our Days”
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- © Sue D’Arcy Fuller, “Old World Rooster”
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- © Sue D’Arcy Fuller, “Stepping Out”
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- © Sue D’Arcy Fuller, “The Renegade”
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- © Sue D’Arcy Fuller, “At the Water Cooler”
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- © Sue D’Arcy Fuller, “Muddy Prints”
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- © Sue D’Arcy Fuller, “Roosting”
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Sue D’Arcy Fuller
The Stars of Our Days
Somewhere near the middle of 2020, I interviewed for a position as a ‘farm educator’ at a local farm that raises chickens both for eggs and for educational purposes. In the midst of the pandemic when all that is normal was no longer, anything that allowed me to be outside socializing in person was all of a sudden very appealing. I had some experience in organic gardening, but really excelled in ‘level of enthusiasm’, and so I was hired.
It has been a wonder to spend part of my days with young children, whose vocabulary now includes things like “hybrid remote”, “social distancing”, “zoom calls” and ‘being exposed”, yet to be with them when they can be free and run around outdoors like kids are supposed to.
Chickens were often the stars of our days. We learned about them, fed and watered them, picked them up, collected their eggs, named them.
I have a new found love for these beautiful and social birds, partly because of the joy they brought to the children, and partly because my eyes were opened to the lively and sweet beings that they are. A pandemic gift to me.
Artist Bio
Photographer Sue D’Arcy Fuller’s work centers on personal discovery. Her Memory series, photographs of her own books and the bookmarks left behind, reveal a window into moments in time that have sparked her own memories and recall the commonality of all of our experiences. With her series of photographs of maps encased in ice, she conveys her desire to hold on to the feelings of adventure and the open road that she associates with increasingly rare paper maps. Her latest series, The Stars of Our Days, is about a personal experience while teaching children during the Covid 19 Pandemic where she experienced the joy that chickens can bring.
D’Arcy Fuller has exhibited her work at the deCordova Museum Salon Shows, the Post Road Center for the Arts, Memorial Hall at the Cary Library in Lexington, MA, and at the Griffin Museum of Photography. She was also the studio photographer for the full-length feature documentary AshBash: A love story, directed by Heidi Sullivan. The film is an award winner at the Boston International Film Festival 2012 and the Woods Hold Film Festival 2012.
She is also a photography educator and the Director of Programs at the Griffin Museum of Photography.
http://suedarcyfullerphotography.com
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