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Art and Soil: The Aesthetics of Dirt
- New ways of soil comunication -
by
Gerd Wessolek
1 Soil aesthetics
2 Some own soil and art work
3 Examples of soil Art in education
4 Conclusions
Low evidence of soil
Reasons
� For many people soil is dirt and unattractive and
� mostly they do not have any soil education
� Soil is not visible (=ground)
Question: is soil science the only way to give soil more
relevance and importance?
Nature Art and Science
Nature Art and Science
„It makes a difference, which way you go to
discover a discipline and which door you‘re
using to enter“.
Goethe
Soil Art is such an entrance...
It uses aesthetic technics and
elements to communicate…
Nature Art and Science
Soil aesthetic criteria
Soil texture in...
used in Zen gardens in Kyoto, Japan
Soil structure
...picked up by Joseph Beuy‘s „earth-telefon“ (1968)
By the way:
It‘s easy for you to discover soil structuremotives.....
Some examples
Soil surface structures at the coast
...artificial soil structures at the beach
human structures at the beach
Most important soil aestheic criteria: Soil color
Using aquarel colors to characterize different soils.
(i) Podsolic soils
Landscape painting usingaquarel colors combinedwith parent soil material
Describing soil propertiesusing both soil and colors
Soil and Art in education
• Good way to discover „soil“
• Active participation and being creative
• It‘s fun
some examples of student‘s work....
Examples of student‘s projects
• A soil museum in a soil park
• „Ecological footprint“ (humification/mineralization)
on the Berliner „Gleisdreieck“
• „Soil torte“ demonstrating remediation success on a
former waste water disposal field Berlin-Buch
• Art with urban soil on a fallow site
A virtuel soil museum by Andreas Vetter
A virtuel soil art park by Andreas Vetter: listening soil music
The carot footprint on the Berlin Gleisdreieck
Demonstrating mineralization process
Former waste water disposal field
„Berlin-Buch“
How to demonstrate a remediation success?
Soil profile: before and after remidiation using glacial till
---------------SOIL ART: Künstlerische Perspektiven in der Ökologie---------------
Hardy Buhl, TU-Berlin Soil ArtistSoil Profile “Torte”, waste water disposal field Berlin-Buch, 2006
Hardy Buhl and TU-Berlin Soil Artists, Soil Profile Torte, Rieselfelder, Berlin-Buch, 2006
---------------SOIL ART--------------
„Art with urban soils“
Discovering urban soil and collecting samples
Fixing objects and urban soil on a canvas....
Contemplation with soil...
Urban soil art (120 x 180cm)
My conclusions
• Soil science „pure“ is often too unattractive!
• Pick up the Ikea slogan: Use your challenges to
discover soil !
• Soil and Art is only one way to do it
...thank you for your interest
---------------SOIL and ART--------------------
Questionnaire on Soil- Art - Aethetics
1. Annual Meeting of the German Soil Science Society, Dresden 2007
2. SUITMA congress 2007, China
3. University Weihenstephan, Germany
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1 2 3 4 5 6Aspect
Per
cent
natural science
social science
aesthetics
combination of 1 and 3
combination of 1 and 2
combination of all
Which aspects are relevant for soil?
15%
49%
36%sometimes no
yes
Does your profession include aesthtic elements?
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very important
important
unimportant
Percent
Is soil art important?
83,1%
16,9%
yes
no
Do you collect soil or stones for aesthetic reasons?
Three examples of our study project
1. On the Berliner „Gleisdreieck“
„ Ecological footprint“ (humification/mineralization)
2. On the former waste water disposal field Berlin-Buch
„Soil torte“ (demonstrating remediation success)
3. On a fallow site close to our Institute
„Art with urban soil“ (urban soils are interesting)
A German Soil Alphabet
(iii) Gleyic soils
(ii) Pseudogleyic soils
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