From the Global to the Local:

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From the Global to the Local

• A Detailed View of Environmental Art and the
  Creative Force Within

By Daniel M. Podrasky
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Frame Your Understanding

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

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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-uni
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Nature of Goldsworthys Art

• Overview of Goldsworthys 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 foreverOnce a piece has been
  illuminated by the perfect light or been borne
  away by the serendipitous wave, he great-fully
  bids it a fond farewellAndy Goldsworthy
• From the Ancient to the Modern

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Overview of Goldsworthys Style
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Relationship to the Earth
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From the Ancient to the Modern
www.flickr.com/photos/mthomas/tags/stone
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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

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Transitioning to Eco-Art

• Four Aspects of Environmental Art
• 1) Multi-sensory works
• 2) Reconfiguring time
• 3) Movement through space
• 4) Ethical Responsibility

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Tout Quarry

• Location
• Geological Features
• Artist Works

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Location

• Cliff-top high south of Lyme Bay Weymouth Bays
  on the Devon Coast
• Then Quarry
• Now Artwork Park

http//learningstone.org/where.html
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Geological Features

• Portland Stone
• Formed 150 million years ago during the Jurassic
• Type of stone location dictate the art

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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
  stoneIn 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
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Shifting from the Global to the Local

• Reclamation of Earth in the Seattle Area

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Johnson Pit 30

• History
• Seattle-Tacoma Area
• Is land reclamation negative?

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Mill Creek Canyon-Earthworks Park
Herbert Bayer
http//www.ludb.clui.org/ex/i/WA3127

• Multi-Purpose
• Created in 1982
• City Project

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Returning Home

• Title Con mi Spiritu
• Intention
• Process
• Relationship to Earth

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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 Goldsworthys Rivers Tides, 2001

• Other Resources
• TCXG 340 Landscape ArtTyler Budge

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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?