The Rigley Field
A place to make, preserve, and encounter the work.
The Rigley Field is a ten-acre property in Nashville, Indiana, and the home of the EZRA practice.
The house, gallery, studio, pond, land, objects, and changing environment form the conditions in which the work is made and lived with over time.
It is where Volume I is currently installed.
It is also a place being continuously observed.
The Rigley Field is both where the practice happens and part of what the practice pays attention to.
The Place
The site carries a history of making.
The house was built and inhabited by the artist Frederick Rigley, who lived and worked on the property before it became Dager’s home and studio.
Traces of that history remain throughout the site—in the architecture, objects, drawings, materials, and landscape that were left behind.
That history is preserved without requiring the property to remain unchanged.
The property continues forward through use, care, observation, and change.
What was already here remains in relationship with what is happening now.
THE PRACTICE HERE
There is no clear boundary between studio, gallery, archive, and home.
Work develops throughout The Rigley Field.
Objects move between use and observation. Photographs record changes in the house and land. Notes accumulate beside artworks. The gallery changes as new works appear and existing works enter different relationships.
Daily life continues around all of it.
This overlap is intentional.
EZRA is not practiced somewhere else and presented here afterward.
The Rigley Field is one of the conditions through which the practice takes form.
A PLACE OBSERVED OVER TIME
The Rigley Field is continuously documented as part of the broader Field Archive.
Photography, video, fieldwork, and other records preserve changes in architecture, landscape, weather, light, use, and material condition.
The purpose is not to freeze the property in time.
It is to preserve enough of its changing conditions that relationships can become visible later.
The Rigley Field is one place within a much larger archive of environments encountered through the practice.
VISIT THE RIGLEY FIELD
The work is meant to be encountered.
Volume I is currently installed at The Rigley Field in Nashville, Indiana.
Visits to the studio and gallery are available by appointment for anyone interested in spending time with the work and learning more about the practice.
There are no regular public hours.
If you would like to visit, get in touch.
Pay attention.