Introduction

This blog was created for my purposes in Earth Art, and will hopefully extend beyond this length of our 5 week course. I'm looking at themes which push the discrete boundaries on what is earth art; using elementalism in a broader sense to interact with nature.

In this sense, I have chosen my header image. This Barnett Newman Obelisk, part of a studio series of works, is not intrinsically earth art. It is stylized and controlled. As a steel sculpture it will not decay in a traditional sense. These obelisks change the landscape, and interact naturally with only precipitation. As the obelisks age and experience rainfall, the drops form patterns and streaks on the works. It is then the process and time of being presented which transforms these into earth art. Were they in a gallery or private collection, they would simply be sculpture.

An idea expressed in much of earth art is the examination of origins. Through reverting to original forms there is a certain unity created. I am interested in taking this one step further. To quote the profundity of Sagan, "We are all star stuff." A route of earth art yet unexplored may be chaos. More on this later.

Cheers,
Dylan