GARBŠTIENĖ, Laura; VENCKĖ, Ugnė (eds.)
Shepherd’s Notes VI / Piemenų užrašai VI [09-10/2024]

Shepherd’s Notes is a series published in the context of the residency program, “Creative Pastures of the Spinners”: artists live and work in a farmhouse in the village of Kabeliai, in southeastern Lithuania, and sharee the responsibility of tending the flock of Skudde sheep. The residency offers an opportunity to work closely with a rural community of small farmers, naturalists, craftspeople, and to experience sheep herding as a platform for creative work, a school of coexistence with the Other. The Shepherd’s Notes are a spacefor past and future shepherds to interact: it is a shepherd-creator’s pocket guide in the land of sheep, composed of fragments of experiences and hints of artwork. 

In this issue, notes, photographs and documents recount the experiences of artists Sophie Durand, Marijonas Verbel, Kat Wood, Jitka Králová. Reflections on responsible design and weather stations, experiments in weaving and naming, observations on smoke and cheese, kvass and ceramics.

Foreword by Tadas Šarūnas.

Riso & laser printed / Ed. of 100.

Bilingual Lithuanian / English.

Published by Verpėjos, 2024
Design by Inga Navickaitė
Periodicals / Ecology / Art Spaces / Artists' Writings