A new place to sit
May 12, 2017
“… the deep wisdom of the soul which recognises that life is about loss, and that love tempered by grief, allows one to cherish the
About Windgrove
Windgrove is a 100 acre coastal property in the south-east of Tasmania that borders Roaring Beach and looks out across Storm Bay to the Antarctic 3000 kilometers away. ‘Life on the Edge’, first published in 2003, is a weekly diary of photos and prose about the comings and goings here.
The author of this blog and steward/ caretaker of Windgrove is Peter Adams. American born (Detroit), Harvard graduate (1968), Peace Corps volunteer (Korea), carpenter (Alaska), furniture designer/maker (North Carolina), sculptor and environmental writer (Tasmania).
His art is in six museums internationally and he has taught at schools in England, America, Korea and Australia.
After purchasing Windgrove in 1991, Peter has spent the ensuing years transforming the landscape through the planting of 8,000 trees and the creation of several large scale Earth Art features. In the process he, himself, has been transformed by the land.
This blog is the story of that reciprocal transformation.
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Nourishment
November 23, 2016
Where have all the people gone? Generally, aside from an hour and a half teaching session from 9AM in the morning and an hour Daily
Legacy
October 16, 2016
I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may not complete this last one but I give myself to
From the pantry
October 2, 2016
The walk-in pantry off my kitchen is of a large enough size that occasionally, on a darkened shelf and at the back of this shelf,
TODAY
September 28, 2016
So what am I doing at the base of the sculpture ‘Birth’? I’m carving the letters TODAY. Six hundred million years earlier, visitors to Windgrove
“Before and After”
September 19, 2016
This weekend, on a cloud free morning, I photographed the Peace Bus as it sat all pretty in the landscape surrounded by spring flowering beauty.
The flow of life
June 25, 2016
Six months ago it was necessary to move the pump’s suction hose to the very middle of the dam in order to extract the last
Easter Rising
March 28, 2016
Finally, after many, many days of re-finishing the sculpture nicknamed the Pumpkin Pole, it was installed on the eve of Good Friday. During the Easter
New version
March 1, 2016
Last year I posted a short one minute video that was part of an advertising campaign by Tourism Tasmania. Recently, the producer of that video
Dan Bailey at Windgrove
January 15, 2016
It’s been a whirlwind of drone footage and photos for the past month by long time friend and guest artist at Windgrove: Dan Bailey. For
Merry Christmas from Roaring Beach
December 24, 2015
My long time friend Dan Bailey is visiting Windgrove for a month. Here’s his first video of the area. Enjoy this visual treat. Emily at
We do what we can when called upon
November 30, 2015
In the crystallin vastness of a starry night, if you or I look up into the billions of pin-pricks of light and try to comprehend
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