I’ve created several posts about North Adams and here they continue. On another day there was a visit to the Eclipse Mill. Old mills on canals are often being converted to artists’ living quarters/work space/shop space. I’ve made a couple of friends over the years. It’s important to support the people who create art. The thought of a reasonable loft space is very tempting!

Back to Mass MoCA. In the old boiler building from the Sprague  Electric Company there is an audio installation by Stephen Vitiello, All Those Vanished Engines. There are haunting voices of those from the time of the boiler, and the clanging sounds that echo through memory.

My favorite “installation.” History–it rust, vision and sounds made into art.

The boiler

The boiler

shadows

doors once opened

The boiler

stairs to nowhere

Rust on pillar

reflection in a pool of water

Nature reclaims

That evening at the Williamstown Theater Festival I saw a heavy, brilliant production of Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon For The Misbegotten, starring Audra McDonald, who, was on stage emoting flawlessly for almost three hours.