Saturday, August 18, 2018
Land Art of Orkney Island
Ring of Brodgar - Neolithic henge and stone circle.
~ 2500 BC - 2000 BC
SEE:
ORKNEY'S STONE AGE MONUMENTS
Ring of Brodgar by Orkneyjar
Monday, February 6, 2012
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
James Turrell: Skyspace
Skyspace, James Turrell, Kieder, Northumberland, Scotland, ~1984
"To enter James Turrell's Skyspace you have to pass through a tunnel in the hillside, like the passages that led into the neolithic barrows once built in places like this. Crossing this threshold, you are invited to worship the sky.
The Skyspace is a circular white-walled room with a bench round the circumference and a circular hole in the roof. The hole is like the pupil of an eye fixed unblinkingly on the heavens. You can sit, or better still lie, on the bench and watch the sky move across the aperture. Everything speeds up: you realise how fast things change when you concentrate on the same bit of sky. Clouds unravel. For a while - if you're lucky - the sky turns completely blue."
See more information on James Turrell's Roden Crater at the Art21 site: http://www.art21.org/artists/james-turrell
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
High Water Line by Eve Mosher
HighWaterLine from eve mosher on Vimeo.
"HighWaterLine was a public artwork on the New York city waterfront that created an immediate visual and local understanding of the affects of climate change. I marked the 10-feet above sea level line by drawing a blue chalk line and installing illuminated beacons in parks. The line marks the extent of increased flooding brought on by stronger and more frequent storms as a result of climate change.
During the summer of 2007, I walked, chalked and marked almost 70 miles of coastline. As I was out in the public creating the work, I had a chance to engage in conversations about climate change and its potential impacts.
Through awareness and action, we can change the future."
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Experiencing the Sun Tunnels
Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels (1973, Utah) as experienced by groups of people interested in art and the relationship of this piece to ancient land art pieces that align with celestial movements and seasonal alignments of the sun. The Sun Tunnels align with both the winter and summer solstices and offer a moving view of a variety of astrological star formations within the tunnels. Holt was interested in creating a space where industrial forms work with nature, the earth, and within rural landscapes therefore creating an "inside-outside" effect.
Friday, January 6, 2012
D r i f t: by Marie Yates
D R I F T , Marie Yates, 2004
To get a sense of an intermedia artwork that combines a multiplicity of ideas, formats, research, and walking click on DRIFT above ...
Friday, December 30, 2011
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Other Land Art
Dietmar Voorwold 2011 - Creations-In-Nature
Land Art as Fine Art or Eco-Sculpture?
Land Art as Fine Art or Eco-Sculpture?
Brad Birchett, Once Was, Installation at Stove Pipe Hill, Tulsa OK, (part of series), 2011
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Land Arts of the American Southwest: Projects
"On 2 April 2011 Land Arts of the American West in the College of Architecture at Texas Tech University conducted the environmental art action Ground Sourcing for the 2011 Texas Biennial with organizing support from Landmark Arts in the School of Art. Additional information at Ground Sourcing."
Ground Sourcing from chris taylor on Vimeo.
Check out these images from the various Land Art of the American Southwest field-trips (yes, I am jealous!)!!!
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Land Art - Conceptual "Earth Art" or Environmental Sculpture?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh6sQKkkuGk
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Friday, October 29, 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
BorderXing (slideshow)
Heath Bunting and Kayle Brandon, BorderXing, 2002 |
Click on the TITLE above to see the artists' slideshow and commentary ....
And see the artists' website for LOTS more subversive land art approaches at: http://duo.irational.org/
Moyra Davey - The Problem with Reading
(click on title for more info)
You will have to email the artist/writer to get this one!!! Go here for details!!!
You will have to email the artist/writer to get this one!!! Go here for details!!!
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Heather Gray
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