Filmmaker and Installation Artist Roberto Mighty, MFA, is America’s first cemetery Artist-in-Residence, and the inaugural resident artist at Mount Auburn Cemetery, a National Historic Landmark and America’s first garden cemetery.
His 'earth.sky' installation features films and multimedia in an immersive, computer controlled, multi projector traveling exhibit now available for museums worldwide.
earth.sky
Tone Poem
“hillsides”
Note: A visual and musical appreciation of gradations at Mount Auburn Cemetery
Artist Statement
We climb,
or at least our eyes do
Giddily our vision rises
and falls
The years peel away
in layers of height and depth
the many shades of green
- Roberto Mighty
Credits
Music
All Too Much
Ketsa
Courtesy of Free Music Archive
Funding for this project
A. J. & M. D. Ruggiero Memorial Trust
Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery
Cambridge Arts Council
Preservation Fund for Eastern Massachusetts of
The National Trust for Historic Preservation
Mass Humanities
Watertown Cultural Council
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hillsides
Artist Statement
we climb,
or at least
our eyes do
giddily our vision
rises
and falls
the years peel
away
in layers of height
and depth
the many shades
of green
07/14/14