The Developer's Midnight Fantasy

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The Developer's Midnight Fantasy

Hi Digger, 2018
Construction paint on plywood
6 x 12 feet

Costumes by Marta Baumiller
Photos by Cliff Baldwin

Field of cones, 2018
Hi vis paint on plywood
Each cone 3 x 2 feet

Shovels, 2018
Hi vis paint on plywood
1 x 4 feet

Barking mad, 2021
Oak bark, flagging tape
7 x 9 inches

The goat & the cello

Buried treasure, 2021
Holly berries, concrete, paint
11 x 4 inches

The fox & trupet & bass, 2018

Cones & porta potty, 2018
Hi vis paint on plywood
Life sized

A live performance with original music, and dance that invites visitors to consider the fragility of nature through an imagined clear cutting of the Ashley Schiff forest. The project will visualize how nature can be transformed overnight into yet another development or carpark. The sharp, glossy colors of the cut-outs will contrast with the graceful beauty of nature, construction equipment will mingle with the deciduous forest.

The Developer’s Midnight Fantasy (DMF), 2021, a live performance with original music and dance set in the 26 acre Ashley Schiff Preserve at Stony Brook University. DMF positioned Annemarie Waugh’s life-sized paintings of heavy-duty construction machinery in and around the forest next to the native trees and flora with original music composed by Tommy Wu and Daniel Cohen. Performed by live musicians and dancers choreographed by Amy Yopp Sullivan. Poetry by Michelle Whittaker, costumes designed by Marta Baumiller and neuroscience by Arianna Maffei. The project will visualize how nature can be transformed overnight into yet another development or carpark.

With green open spaces being safer than urban environments Covid made us recognize the importance of forests. Ashley Schiff Preserve has no official protection. Its “Forever Wild” designation is in name only. Legislation to designate the preserve a state park, has not yet been passed.