Maine is a place of great beauty. 
Time is withering away old barns of the past. Innovation and industry were once booming here.
Long-time farms are being lost to "progress" 
I walk the tightrope of welcoming it and wishing it weren't happening. 
This piece is entirely hand tooled in  copper. I never use forms and this wasn't made on a press. 
I drew the design,  used wooden tools to make every single mark and raise the relief,  laying in rivers, mountains and coastal borders.
I've been working with metals for 25 years. I use primitive techniques.  I wish to maintain techniques using hand tools and patience in developed skill.
The copper is mounted on found materials reclaimed from barns that are now a thing of the past. Someone's home, family farm. Their history. 
We cannot continue yo erase the past and not suffer for it as a society. I