Curator talk on “Huff and a Puff”

“Huff and a Puff” by Hugh Hayden.

The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum will host “Huff and a Puff: Thoreau’s Legacy with Jeffrey S. Cramer and Sarah Montross” on Thursday, March 14 from 6–7:30 p.m. to celebrate the recent installation of Hugh Hayden’s Huff and a Puff on the museum’s front lawn. The piece is a slanted replica of the one-room home where Henry David Thoreau lived in relative isolation at nearby Walden Pond and wrote Walden. The individually cut shingles of the cabin are of cedar, which Thoreau used for his original cabin, and the slanted bricks were custom created using locally sourced clay. The windows are mirrored so visitors can see themselves as well as the ground and sky, further altering the perception of this small house and emphasizing the viewer as part of the work. 

Huff and a Puff was commissioned by Art & the Landscape, an initiative of The Trustees of Reservations. Click here for tickets.