From the Global to the Local: A Detailed View of Environmental Art and

the Creative Force Within

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By Daniel M. Podrasky

Frame Your Understanding• Andy Goldsworthy

• Environmental Art

• Tout Quarry

• Shifting from the Global to the Local

• Returning Home

Andy Goldsworthy1956

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.

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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

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Relationship to the Earth…

http://www.quacommunications.com/blog/images/andy_goldsworthy_02.jpg

From the Ancient to the Modern

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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

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Geological Features• Portland Stone

• Formed 150 million years ago during the Jurassic

• Type of stone & location dictate the art

“Fallen Fossil”

• "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)

Stephen Marsden

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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

• Multi-Purpose

• Created in 1982

• City Project

Herbert Bayer

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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?