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Michael Heizer

Well known for his capacity to build large-scale works and explore the relationship between positive and negative space, Michael Heizer has been a prominent figure of the land art movement since his twenties in the late 1960s. Through his monumental excavations and constructions, Heizer analyses scale and forms to build works evoking fear and awe at the same time capable of outlasting humanity. Starting his career with what he called “negative painting”, a series of shaped canvases, he made his first negative land work North, East, South, West in the late 1960s. This work consisted of a series of geometrically-shaped holes dug in the Sierra Nevada desert and represented his first foray into monumental earthworks.

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lita albuquerque

“It is natural to use the earth as a canvas. I think of earth as a sculpture in space,” said Albuquerque, whose career spans both the Light and Space and Land Art movements.

“In realizing this work, my aim was to encourage the public to look up and out, not in and down,” Albuquerque explains, “to guide people from our everyday reality to the larger stellar movements and their energy.”

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Screenshots from sketchup model

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Photoshop renderings.

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Final Photos of scaled down model.

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Richard Long, Dusty Boots Line (1988)

Richard Long works with rocks and mud—and lots and lots of walking. An emblematic early work from the ’60s involved grass patted down in a line by the artist’s feet in motion, and for Dusty Boots Line, he kicked stones in the Sahara Desert away to clear a path in the middle of a landscape in which he did all sorts of other stuff during a fruitful journey in 1988. As Long himself said on the occasion of a retrospective in London: “To make art only by walking, or leaving ephemeral traces here and there, is my freedom. I can make art in a very simple way but on a huge scale in terms of miles and space.”

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Nancy Holt, Up and Under (1987–98)

The creator of a number of works of Land art (including her well-known Sun Tunnels in northwestern Utah), Nancy Holt took to a former sand quarry in Finland for Up and Under, a corkscrewing series of tunnels covered in grass, and aligned in relation to the North Star. Pools of water reflect the sky above, and gatherings of earth from different locations around Finland figure in the grounds. As suggested on the website for the Holt/Smithson Foundation (Holt was married to Robert Smithson, of Spiral Jetty fame): “The work provides a terrain ripe for sensory experience and conceptual musing alike.”

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Maya Lin, Storm King Wavefield (2007–08)

A rolling field of would-be watery waves made with earth and grass is a surreal sight at the storied Storm King Art Center in Upstate New York, where 500 acres of Hudson River Valley idyll are devoted to enormous sculptures of different kinds. The work relates to two other similar wavefields (in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Miami, Florida), but this one is the largest—with seven waves stretching 400 feet from side-to-side and rising in forms between 10 and 15 feet tall. The effect of walking among them—riding them, so to speak—is magnificent.

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Jim Reinders - “Carhenge”

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Grass Sculpture inspiration.

Unknown artists

Served as inspiration for my work as I too used grass to cover the surface of my work.

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Sculptures that also serve as instruments that can be played by the wind.

Inspired my own sculpture.

First art work is “Singing, Ringing Tree” by Mike Tonkin & Anna Liu.

Second artwork is “Aeolus” by Luke Jerram.

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Site

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Nancy Holt

Land Art inspo

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Week 12 Presentation

In this work I choose to directly used the land as inspiration, using the rolling hills of what once used to be the Victoria Park gold course but what always was and will be Indigenous land.

Aboriginal law and spirituality and land are intertwined with the land. The way in which the land is formed is referenced in serval dream time stories. I particularly wanted to pay attention to this aspect of indigenous culture because it something as a western modern society we over look. The beliefs the indigenous peoples have creates a kinship between man and land, this creates a trend of better care and responsibility towards the earth.

MDF - is constructed primarily from wood fiber, many wood shavings and other portions of the wood that might normally be discarded can instead be recycled into MDF production. Has the potential to emit formaldehyde as off-gas because of the adhesives used in manufacturing. ... The greenest types of particleboard and MDF have high amounts of recycled content or use alternative fibers—like straw or sugarcane residue, known as bagasse - in place of wood.

INTERVENTIONS

Response to physical, cultural, institutional features/aspects of sites (eg. Land art, conceptual art), tends to be unsaleable, aims to reveal what is hidden, to surprise.

- pure representation of the land

- the circular form on the arch acts as an instrument

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Proposed site in sketch up different sizes

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Sketch up work in progress

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Model final