Video!

Okay the link in the post below that says Collection doesn't work so this is take two!

Collection

Final Project!

        At the beginning of the class I thought I knew what I wanted to do for my final project. As the class progressed and my knowledge for Earth Art expanded my idea changed a number of times. From using pieces I had made in my basic sculpture class, to replicating the circles I love to draw, to playing in the elements of dirt, sand and, water. All of my ideas merged together and took a whole different spin. To make Earth Art, I wanted actually use want the Earth was able to give me, at this particular time of the year, falling leaves. The process of fall is one that I use to not appreciate as much as the other seasons, but this year I had a different connection to it. A couple of weeks ago both of my tires on my bicycle popped, I have not been able to buy new ones, so I have had to walk to all of my classes. It’s not a huge hassle I just had to get use to leaving my house earlier than normal. From this experience I have watched leaves fall from the trees to the streets. The colors of the leaves this year have caught my attention more than ever. Leaves were meant to provide nutrition for the soil of the Earth, but living is a city, leaves are not doing what they were made to do. What I wanted to do for my final projects was arrange leaves I collected throughout the streets of Richmond, and allow the people of Richmond to view leaves in a different way. What you are about to see are documentations and a video of my process. Enjoy!

Collection

 

   

Experiments.

One day after class I wanted to experiment with nighttime photography.  The first photograph is where three ends meet, Grass, Bricks, and Cement. Each laid down by men for different reason and for different amounts of time.

            The last photographs are experimentations in bushes. I was playing with the lighting to show depth through the colors of green. I like the idea of tricking the viewers through simple illusions.

Untraditional Methods!

As a naturalist and artist Nils Udo has in my mind redefined the traditional methods of Earth Art. He reins from Germany and in the 60's he began to paint in Paris, but soon after he moved his home land, Bavaria, and started to plant art. His pieces progressed into ephemeral creations and Udo documented them. The range his work not only shows growth but creativity in experimenting new things. I especially like the use of color in his work, it's elegant yet powerful.

Wood Works!

An inspiriting artist named: Patrick Dougherty was a carpenter before he was about to express his skill through nature. His techniques started from primitive forms of building and experimentation with trees. In about 1980 Patrick created small works in his own backyard. He then moved at a rapid pace from single piece works on to more conventional monumental site-specific installation. Where the amount of wood was hauled by the truckloads. From the 80's till now he has created and built over two hundred massive land art sculptures in all parts of the world. He now lives in North Carolina in his handmade home out of logs!

I really enjoy these pieces because he is bringing wood sticks back to nature in a new way. He also has photographs of work where he has brought the nature into the gallery, but the images where really blurry, so you guys should look them up! Patrick Dougherty

Ideas!

Idea#1

Materials: "Tool" used from my last piece, but I like how it plays with light & I have access to it.

Medium: Create forms with "tools" & incorporate video maybe sound?

Location: Forrest/River

Vision: Running through the trees with shots of the fabric & a shot of water with the wind blowing the fabric flowing through it.

Forms: Cell like forms or a nebula






Idea #2

I like the idea of doing the same type of work as another artist, because I want to revisit a feeling the OG artist went through.
Example: Making a Carne or arranging leafs by color
So dealing with the same idea that other artist have dealt with and learning through different processes.

Agnes Dene

The American land artist, Agnes Denes became an international artist through many of her pieces. There are twp that I will visually show you. In 1982, Agnes produced a work of art that is one of the best-known environmental art projects of their time called, "Wheatfield, A Confrontation." There was 1,000 lbs. of wheat in the middle of New York City! She was trying to comment on "human values and misplaced priorities." Her harvested grain traveled to 28 other cities world wide to help promote "The International Art Show for the End of the World Hunger."

Nearly 14 years later in 1996, Denes created a living time capsule. Her plans to contribute to global ecology meant constructing a mountain on an old gravel quarry and planting 11,000 Finnish Pine trees. This took place in Finland and was titled, "Tree Mountain, A Living Time Capsule." She had huge help from the volunteers where planted the trees with her. They were also given a certificate for up to 400 years of the responsibility for the stewardship of one of the trees. This massive earth work was one no one could forget.

Recent Earth Art

This past week I had a critique of a total of ten pieces to complete, here are two of my ten. The first piece was found wood that I collected from my home town, Virginia Beach, and my current town, Richmond. The process of collecting the wood and the memories day from the days I found them, play a huge part in the way I arranged the piece. I also twisted and beaded wire to juxtapose the fragileness of the bark and the delicateness of the metal.

In my second piece I froze water into a circle. I carved the letters DVN, this piece was for pure experimentation. The documentation was the aftermath of the ice melting.