CAMILLE ROOS • BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCE COUNCIL

Sanctuaries

Sanctuaries is a series of three outdoor installations, each engaging a different site along the BNRC trail systems and a different question about inner experience.It explores nature as sanctuary, with humans as students (or disciples).What can we learn from nature as sanctuary about the spaces we are called to protect in our lives?What mutual benefit occurs when we sanction space for refuge in our interspecies lives and habitats?Each installation is accompanied by a set of creative prompts and a Painting in Place session. Written responses are collected here and will inform a future exhibition.You are part of this work! Thank you for being here.

This project has been supported by a grant from the Martha Boschen Porter Fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Camille Roos
A multimedia artist and educator working across painting and installation to examine relationships among body, psyche, and place. Her work moves between sensory perception and social engagement.
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Berkshire Natural Resource Council
Our mission is to conserve and care for Berkshire lands, waters, and wildlife, and connect people with nature for a more vibrant, shared future.
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Site I : Thomas & Palmer Brook

Sanctuary of Dreams

Reclaimed four-post bedframe, apoxie-sculpt, raw canvas, leather scrap, rope, earth pigment, acrylic paint.

ABOUT
Sited at the convergence of meadow, brook, and forest, sits a family of sloping rocks, and a bed with a mountain terrain... or is it an island, or is it a bodily mass? Behind it are curtains, with scraps of leather like pages in a book, and the eyes of a Polyphemus moth guarding the dreams that lay hidden.

dreams • ancestry • lineage • decay • decadence • foment • pleasure • rest

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SANCTUARIES
Sanctuary of Dreams
Sanctuary of Thresholds
Sanctuary of StillnessARTIST
Camille RoosPARTNER
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Site II : Housatonic Flats

Sanctuary of Thresholds

Reclaimed arched window frame, hand-harvested timber, tin bells, deer antler, shells, tung oil, earth pigment, acrylic paint.

ABOUTFORTHCOMING || END OF AUGUSTSited at the raised edge of the river, stands a reconstructed torii gate and a suspended windowless frame that directs the viewer towards the sky, adorned with earthly treasures. With the river below and the sky above, the softened sand, clay, and grasses at ground level, there is an invitation to cross over... only from where to where?

crossing • initiation • sacred+profane • before+after • courage • letting go • calling in • intentionality • prayer

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SANCTUARIES
Sanctuary of Dreams
Sanctuary of Thresholds
Sanctuary of StillnessARTIST
Camille RoosPARTNER
Berkshire Natural Resource Council→ Home

Site III : Parson's Marsh

Sanctuary of Stillness

Locally harvested cattails, rebar, epoxy resin, washable paper, mica powder, acrylic paint.

ABOUT
FORTHCOMING || END OF SEPTEMBERSited on the pond's surface, sit lotus baskets, where deities traditionally reside. On the shed's surface are frozen drops of water, and an origami flower.

stillness • silence • meditation • unity • witness • dissolution • empty+fullness • space

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SANCTUARIES
Sanctuary of Dreams
Sanctuary of Thresholds
Sanctuary of StillnessARTIST
Camille RoosPARTNER
Berkshire Natural Resource Council→ Home