An unlikely art project has appeared on a South Burlington farm: piles of stone that look simultaneously contemporary and ancient. But they weren’t created by prehistoric residents, and they didn’t create themselves.
The accidental artist behind these sculptures is Jacques-Paul Marton, 56, who lives in nearby Stonehedge and routinely walks his dog, Cooper, through the fields of the farm (behind Wheelock Surplus Barn) at Spear and Swift streets that’s owned by the University of Vermont. And everyone else who routinely walks or jogs there has had the pleasure of watching these creations — Marton calls them cairns — take shape.
Marton, a custodian at UVM’s Davis Center, says he started building them last January.
“They didn’t plant corn this year, so I started taking out my dog in the pasture and noticed these odd little piles of rocks,” he says. “I just started piling them up — it happened on a lark.”
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