taleamor park
WHO
Clifford and Lisa Lee Peterson share the artistic, administrative, and practical responsibilities of Taleamor Park.
Clifford has lived on and off the farm that is now home to Taleamor Park since 1950. With degrees from Harvard in visual studies, Notre Dame in environic design, and the University of Chicago in cultural anthropology, Clifford is Taleamor Park’s resident scholar, artist, and farmer visionary. Examples of his artwork can be viewed at www.taleamor.art. All images on this site are Clifford's unless otherwise noted.
In 2015, Lisa retired after thirty years at Purdue University where she served as professor of textile arts, chair of the department of art and design, and designer/director of the MFA program. Lisa’s artistic genre has evolved from weaving cloth with yarn to weaving yarns out of whole cloth. Her current book-in-progress is a multigenerational story that sweeps across the Pacific Ocean from Honolulu, to a village near the Pearl River Delta in China, to San Francisco. The lives of four women in a Chinese American family reveal the consequences of exclusion—whether by law, abandonment, betrayal, rejection, or intolerance. Lisa is the webmaster for this site.
Tal•e•a•mor is an invented word. “Talea” is a cutting for the propagation of a plant. “Tale” implies story. “Amor” is love. An internet search for “taleamor” found the opening words of Leonora's aria in Verdi’s opera Il Trovatore: "Di tale amor che dirsi mal può dalla parola..." —a love that can scarcely be put into words.
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