This intervention seeks to explore the nature of transience and permanence [sequential time and cyclical time], mobility and groundedness. This exploration takes into consideration a site [Long Farm], an artifact [the ‘69 Airstream] and an act [incineration]. It is a dock, but also a concrete plinth that serves as a stage for the act of burning unwanted site material. This dock and pyre acts as a portal: a destination and point of departure, welcoming a foreign artifact while simultaneously releasing materials once integral to the site.

An airstream, moved on site to accomodate a Maker and a Cultivator, serves as a temporary dwelling during the construction of a permanent residence. Affixed to tracks, it navigates between a construction site and garden, tethered to the landscape. The Airstream becomes a threshold between these two realms. Iron rails and steel wheels ground the the innately mobile creature to the site without denying its inborn nomadism. The Airstream’s path is linear, but its movement is dynamic, controlled by cyclical circumstances.

The Maker and the Cultivator each have their own motives that define the movement of the mobile dwelling. The change of seasons, the act of site modification, the rejected remnants of creative endeavors, preoccupations of whim, and weather all play a role in determining the trailer’s position along its path. The plinth, in turn, performs its duty when called upon, providing a secure arena for the burning of brush and general removal of unwanted debris. The concrete embraces a bed of gravel, whereupon brush is burned and ash is created. As the ash accumulates, a delta of detritus amasses just beyond the plinth, and washes over the land below. Ashes rich with nutrients fan out beyond the burnpile,  providing fertile soil for the growing of poppies. Thus the cycle of inceneration replenishes the cycle of cultivation.