From the Global to the Local:

From the Global to the Local: By Daniel M. Podrasky A Detailed View of Environmental Art and the Creative Force Within http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/neighbors/visiting/images/sculpture_stone.jpg

Frame Your Understanding • Andy Goldsworthy • Environmental Art • Tout Quarry • Shifting from the Global to the Local • Returning Home

Andy Goldsworthy 1956 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” Stephen Marsden • "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) 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 Herbert Bayer http://www.ludb.clui.org/ex/i/WA3127 • Multi-Purpose • Created in 1982 • City Project

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?

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