Environmental Sculpture
Claire
This weeks project was to create a work of art using materials from the natural environment. Inspired by the work of Andy Goldsworthy, I created a work of art with the help of my friends Claire and Johanna off the Blue Ridge Parkway. I decided to name my piece Claire because my friend Claire loves triangles and is constantly making pieces of art in the shape of triangles.
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Try listening to this piece of music while you check out my sculpture!
Creating art is so much more fun with friends.
Coordinates
36° 8'27.84"N, 81°43'22.29"W
My Process
I really enjoyed this project. It allowed me to channel my creative genus while spending a day outside. I didn't have an idea in mind beforehand and instead found plants, sticks and rocks that I thought were interesting and used them to channel inspiration. As you can see above, I changed the design of the sculpture a few times until I decided to do triangles. I named the final product Claire because my friend Claire almost always incorporates triangles into her art. My sculpture is made of sticks, thorns, lichens and purple leaves. While I was making my sculpture, there were a few road blocks that I encountered and had to problem solve for. It was a very windy day, so I had to improvise by using thorns to pin the leaves down. The lichens were too thick to use thorns, so I used broken pieces of thin sticks as a peg. Also, when I walked away to collect more materials, I piled rocks and sticks over my sculpture to keep the materials from blowing away.
Claire
Materials
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Green lichens
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Purple leaves
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Sticks
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Thorns
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Rocks
