Notitia was created by Jonathan Jennings Harris, an American multimedia artist known for his wide-ranging work with data, story, ritual, and wisdom.
After many years of working with the digital world, in 2015 Jonathan returned to his family’s ancestral land in Vermont, seeking to reengage with the physical world and the rhythms of nature. He wanted to explore the practice of “Life Art” — art that takes life itself as the medium by working with an actual life situation as the frame for the work over time. He spent the next seven years immersed in the world of High Acres Farm — performing and filming a series of twenty-one rituals; transforming his grandparents’ home into a beloved contemporary gathering place; designing and installing a network of twenty-seven “lightning transformers” across forty acres of land; and completing Notitia Sanctuary, a home and place of retreat.
The initial vision for Notitia arrived in a vivid dream on the night of February 7, 2017. Earlier that day, Jonathan had slipped in the ice, causing the cardboard model of an earlier design to fall and break apart in the snow. Notitia Sanctuary was completed exactly three years later, with his first night sleeping there being February 7, 2020.
Now, after six years as a private home, Notitia is also available for others to experience — through weekly rentals to families, friends, couples, and fellow creative practitioners. An artist residency program will be announced in the future.
A place of deep peace and great beauty, Notitia is dedicated to embodied experience and the realization of dreams.