The Great Woodstock Frame-Up

Deep inside Gracie Coates and Sam Margevicius contemporary cabin there’s a basement. Deep inside that basement, there’s a wood shop. And, deep inside that wood shop, there’s one solidly constructed table. At the back corner of that table, hidden under plywood, there’s one perfectly, artfully constructed table joint. “For the past few years I’ve been in a conversation with a Zen Buddhist monk,” explains Margevicius, a former Cub Scout and now artist working in and around the space of photography. “75 percent of our conversations goes over my head—but I sometimes pick up little flashes of wisdom.“ Margevicius had enlisted the help of his father, a former scout master, sometime accordion and piano player, and now engineer working in and around the space of circuit boards, to help build the wood shop where Margevicius creates frames out of trunks and branches culled from the surrounding woods.

Photos by Winona Barton-Ballentine