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Key notes:
Ash Dome - David Nash
• A living - outdoor sculpture
• Nash wanted to create a piece of modern art that didn't resist the elements but becomes a part of them.
• Planted saplings 1977
• A living sculpture aimed at the 21st century
• Tends and trains the trees by hand and dedicated whole career to this one piece.
• Oldest idea of culture - to cultivate.
The Tilberthwaite touchstone fold - Andy Goldsworthy
• Goldsworthy known for ephemeral landscape works
• natural found materials - non - permanence
• 46 disused sheepfolds across cumbria -
• drystone wall enclosures and now beautiful outdoor structures
• 4 additions into the sheepfold walls themselves
• this particular piece illuminated throughout depending on where the sun is in the sky and how the light falls on Goldsworthy's slate additions to the folds.
• Builds a new piece most mornings when out for a walks in the cumbrian countryside and
surrounding fields / famers fields
• Work completely informed by nature and the link between nature, life and human cultivation
> Key quote that really resonates with me, my current frame of mind, approach to creativity and my practice as a whole:
"Perfection is really easy to do, but its a matter of how much time you have to put in to achieving that perfection" - Andy Goldsworthy
Andy speaks about every day feeling like a compromise with time - a battle to achieve the most in the limited hours that the day has to offer. Not only that but you are juggling life and other interests and needs as well as this strive for perfection. This quote encompasses everything I feel I am battling with currently, and to be honest I have felt this way since starting the course. I wish it was a lot easier to accept life's challenges and limitations so that I could better achieve the level of perfection that I strive for - it doesn't look as if this is going to become any easier to deal with as i pursue my passion and illustrative/creative/visual practice, however this "strive for perfection" acts as my motivation and the sense of work never being "complete" may in fact be my practice in all its essence.
Fire Stacks - Julie Brooke
• Outer-hebrides
• Attempts to encapsulate the elemental forces present all around her
• fire, stone and water
• surrenders progress to the sea, twice a day at high tide - whilst creating her "fire stack"
pieces along the oceans edge
• sense of tides, the way the water flows and how the water interacts with the pieces
• elements all coming together - water surrounds the sculpture of fire and stone - all
elements as one in rhythm with one another
• searching for a connection with the landscape - a sense of purity and ancient meaning
• a marker of human presence
A Line Made by Walking - Richard Long
• Only known by one single photograph
• Makes work for the land - not against it
• 10 mile walk across the Exmoor moor
Thoughts
This documentary has been eye opening to see how other creatives use, manipulate and create amazing visual artwork sympathetic of nature and its place within it. Some tell a story, some have a deeper personal meaning or convey important issues, and some simply exist in a space, waiting to immerse their audience and provide a connection with nature on a much deeper level.
Nature in all its forms has acted as a muse and source of main inspiration for my practice. I like to push the boundaries of my creative experience and find that more and more I want to create artwork that has a sense of purpose and deeper meaning, as well as providing an immersive/unique experience for my audience. - One that hopefully engages with them on a much deeper level, and can teach, shock and create a bigger impact - than one of just recreation and pleasing aesthetic. Illustration has a "job" to do - and I would like this to be its job within my practice.
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