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

Village Green by Vaughn Bell, 2008

Click on the title above for more info ...

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

Ana Mendieta


Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Other Land Art




Dietmar Voorwold 2011 - Creations-In-Nature
Land Art as Fine Art or Eco-Sculpture?




Brad Birchett, Once Was, Installation at Stove Pipe Hill, Tulsa OK, (part of series), 2011

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Flamborough Cairn Mystery


[... Cairn created as pire-base for winter solstice celebration.]

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!!!

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Heather Gray

Click on "Heather Gray" above to read the article about her on Hunger Mountain and to see many more of Heather's images ....


Heather Gray -- photo/installation/performative -- Neo-feminist environmental (land art) as mother/artist/lover