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From the Global to the Local: A Detailed View of Environmental Art and
the Creative Force Within
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By Daniel M. Podrasky
Frame Your Understanding• Andy Goldsworthy
• Environmental Art
• Tout Quarry
• Shifting from the Global to the Local
• Returning Home
Andy Goldsworthy1956
Goldsworthy born in Cheshire Scotland; however, brought up in Yorkshire
1974-78
Attended Bradford College of Art and Preston Polytechnic
1980-Present
Has worked all over the world, mainly outdoors, including such sites within the Lakes District and Yorkshire Dales.
http://www.camartech.com.au/mj-andygoldsworthy-unit.shtml
Nature of Goldsworthy’s Art
• Overview of Goldsworthy’s Style
• Relationship to the Earth: The modesty in his method is matched by a realism in his
demands. He knows that nothing can or should last forever…Once a piece has been illuminated by the perfect light or been borne away by the serendipitous wave, he great-fully bids it a fond farewell—Andy Goldsworthy
• From the Ancient to the Modern
Overview of Goldsworthy’s Style
http://www.writedesignonline.com/history-culture/AndyGoldsworthy/yellowlinedandelion.jpg
Relationship to the Earth…
http://www.quacommunications.com/blog/images/andy_goldsworthy_02.jpg
From the Ancient to the Modern
www.flickr.com/photos/mthomas/tags/stone
Finding Our Intention Within Art
• The variety of intentions within Art:
• The aesthetic aspect • Use of Materials• The purpose and/or meaning• How background shapes artistic creations
• A Transition to Eco-Art
Transitioning to Eco-Art• Four Aspects of Environmental Art:
1) Multi-sensory works
2) Reconfiguring time
3) Movement through space
4) Ethical Responsibility
Tout Quarry• Location
• Geological Features
• Artist Works
Location
• Cliff-top high south of Lyme Bay & Weymouth Bays on the Devon Coast
• Then: Quarry • Now: Artwork
Park
http://learningstone.org/where.html
Geological Features• Portland Stone
• Formed 150 million years ago during the Jurassic
• Type of stone & location dictate the art
“Fallen Fossil”
• "Fallen Fossil came after regular visits to the Museum of Natural History, where I was attracted by some fossils embedded in the matrix stone, punctuating the rough broken quality of the stone…In terms of the future -- for me it was the experience of working collaboratively, this wealth of material, this wealth of space - a contrast to perennially under-resourced, over-crowded art schools. Stone has such a very strong feeling of permanence, of geological time."(Stephen Marsden)
Stephen Marsden
http://learningstone.org/ff.html
Shifting from the Global to the Local
Reclamation of Earth in the Seattle Area
Johnson Pit #30
• History
• Seattle-Tacoma Area
• Is land reclamation negative?
Mill Creek Canyon-Earthworks Park
• Multi-Purpose
• Created in 1982
• City Project
Herbert Bayer
http://www.ludb.clui.org/ex/i/WA3127
Returning Home
• Title: Con mi Spiritu
• Intention
• Process
• Relationship to Earth
Additional Resources
Websites of Interest:• http://www.learningstone.org
• http://www.metrokc.gov
Books of Interest:•Passage. By Andy Goldsworthy, 2004•Time. By Andy Goldsworty, 2000
Films:•Andy Goldsworthy’s Rivers & Tides, 2001
Other Resources:• TCXG 340: Landscape & Art—Tyler Budge
Questions
• Other sites of Land Reclamation/ Environmental Art?
• Personal Connection to Earth & Art?
• Should a certain amount of awareness be brought towards Environmental Art in the future, and how?