Bob Nolan

When Cape artist Ed Chesnovitch and Erica Strzepek, Education & Program Manager at the Cape Cod Museum of Art reached out to us about a plein air class at DCLT Headquarters and across the street at Sesuet Farm, we were thrilled. Conservation and storytelling are so important to grow and unite our communities, to give perspective to what can be an oftentimes flat storyline. To put a different set of glasses on artists that might not have ever been to a wide open farm field like at Sesuet Farm, or so close to a historic home of a local sea captain, or to sit under a very old apple tree,

That idea of perspective got us thinking about how the artists would see both Sesuet Farm and Not Enough Acres Farm. How could bringing artists here perhaps change the way we look at place. This place.

Perspective.

Merriam Webster says it’s a “a particular point of view or a specific way of understanding and judging the importance of situations and facts.”

The dictionary also mentions it’s how you see the world based on your life, values, and experiences.

But when applied to art, this same “perspective” relates to depth and distance: A technique used to make flat, two-dimensional surfaces look three-dimensional or to create lines that recede to a point to create realistic spaces.

This point of view, this outlook, viewpoint, angle, mindset, certainly changes with each person’s experience here.

We were so happy to have had Ed’s class members here to paint what they saw.

See below how perspective changed with each artist. It made us see the landscape differently as well.

Cheers to the artists!