This is the most amazing project I have made ever. It's, a Land Art project and it took me about a week to finish it (the picture you see is just a third of it). This project was pretty intense because I was building it in a tree. I was putting all the sticks in between 2 branches of the tree that were going higher and higher. I needed it to start going straight up so it could continue, lucky for me it worked. What makes this project unique is the straight up wall of sticks I did and the originality of the idea. Too bad that animals thought they could live there because they ended up breaking it, but they also suffered because they fell out =P.
(The second picture is the wall of sticks that I need it to create in order to continue the project.) (And the third picture is an under view of the whole project.)
This looks incredibly tedious and time consuming but I guess all your hard work payed off in the end! What makes it so cool is that it's different- the idea of stacking sticks in b/t trees to build a wall. just looking at it, that is a LOT of sticks, lol! yay you for utilizing nature(:
ReplyDeleteThis is a great piece! Was it for a particular project or assignment? Or just something you wanted to create? I would love to see more photos of it in order to get a better idea of the piece as a whole. If you have more photos, please post them! What inspired this? I also like the small straight lines you were able to create and how they contrast to the larger tree limbs. It was a great decision to use branches within the tree. Some of the best land art is subtle, and almost looks as if it belongs there, by using the branches you created that effect. I'm sorry to hear that creatures decided to take up residence there, however, that is the beauty of creating something nature. Now that that has happened, would you create a new piece differently? Taking into account the animals?
ReplyDeleteThis was an assignment from school. Before we did this project we did a practice while all my class was camping (in this first project we had about 2 hours); this practice made me increase my interest in the land art, then we did another where we had about 2 weeks to do something incredible; it was easy to find a location because I already felt a connection with the tree that i chose is like a place where i can meditate, so probably the tree was my inspiration because I really felt safe in that tree. The first week I used for recollection and my first project collapsed, so i went to a different area in the same tree and this project was born. It took a lot of stick from small to big. I really like this project so much that I am thinking of where could I do more land art, I would do it somewhere close to me so I could keep an eye on it, when I finish take pictures and let the nature decide its destiny.
ReplyDeleteYes, I completely agree, I think that would be a great idea! It would be nice if you were able to document the life of the work. Make sure to get photos from father away as well, so that we can see the sculpture within it's environment. Perhaps you have more photos of this one and have done it already, but right now, having two close up photos shows me the details but I would like to see how each part relates the next. Does that make sense?
ReplyDeleteI really like hearing that you chose a place of significance and, you didn't mention this, but I could see how the repetition of form and repetition of placing these forms in the tree might have become a meditative act. These are the connections you should think about if you choose to do another piece. What am I trying to achieve? And what materials/forms/organic objects would help me achieve that?