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 “reflections on willow pond” Note: A visual and aural meditation on a single late Spring morning at Mount Auburn Cemetery’s Willow Pond. Artist Statement July 4th, 2016 Sun reflects off ripples On the pond Birds court in the distance Bugs flit over the water A distant disco party Weeping Willows sweep the surface Flowers and grasses dance in the breeze At the end a surprise Credits Music Dreaming Lee Rosevere 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 ©2016 Roberto Mighty earthdotsky.com - all rights reserved -

Reflections on Willow Pond

Artist Statement

july 4th, 2016

sun reflects off 

ripples

on the surface

birds court among

the trees

bugs skate over the water

a distant disco 

party

weeping willows wash 

the waves 

flowers and grasses 

dance

in the breeze

at the end

a surprise 

 
Willow Pond 07/03/16

Willow Pond 07/03/16