#cedar grove cemetery new bern

[arron-foster-studio]

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At the Beginning

11”x14

Silkscreen

2023

Edition of 26

This print was made for

“Parallels: a Collection of Prints Inspired by Poems”which is an exchange organized by @art_by_c.g.c at the University of Northern Colorado.

For the exchange each artist was asked to respond to the work of a poet (next slide).

I had the privilege of working with the poem “The Gallows” by Sean Sexton.

The poem is a beautifully textured look at the day of one’s reckoning.

My response is a Screenprint based on a glitched original photograph of Cedar Grove Cemetery in New Bern, NC.

The poem made me think of the ways in which the hour of d@&th becomes a marker in time.

It also made me consider the temporality embedded in our funerary traditions.

The ways in which we inter, commemorate and celebrate the d@&d seem so tied to time and place.

Cedar Grove is unique and entirely reflective of its provincial southern surroundings.

With walls made of coquina and trees lined in Spanish moss its performance of grief is nostalgic and palpable and entirely indebted to the complexity of time, place and culture.

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[whitepolaris]

Weeping Arch of New Bern

Cedar Grove Cemetery is easily the most haunted place in the smallish coastal city of New Bern, NC. Graves dating back to the early 1800s fill the huge, undulating space, in the center of which is an unusual mass grave containing the remains of at least for the South, is that it’s an ossuary-the soldiers were originally buried directly in the battlefield, where they’d fallen, but years their hones were retrieved and transferred to Cedar Grove. 

Citizens of New Bern know better than to linger for long under the peculiar triple arch leading into their cemetery. The Weep Arch, as they call it, is made of marl, a porous conglomerate of compacted fossil seashells, which absorbs moisture from rain and everyday humidity and drips almost constantly. If one of the drops ever falls on you, they believe, you’ll be returning to visit Cedar Grove again quite soon, and . . . dead!

[lisascreativedesigns]

I love incorporating photos of places I have been into my work. I love historical cemeteries and spooky places. I took these photos at the Cedar Grove Cemetery in New Bern NC. What a great place to visit! I love how these creepy cemetery coasters turned out. Perfect for Halloween and your haunted house! #spooky #halloween #handmade #gifts #macabre #graveyard #cemetery #homedecor #halloweendecor #hauntedhouse #newbern https://www.instagram.com/p/CFizqhLHpfr/?igshid=ou3o264parjg

[jeffreyadutton]

Cedar Grove Cemetery

New Bern, NC