Showing posts with label Andrew Goldsworthy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Andrew Goldsworthy. Show all posts

Thursday, 19 January 2023

WEEK 3 White stinkwood tree – Celtis Africana and the Stone/Rock of Ages

  Stone art! Stacking stones is a silent art form. I love the English description for this silent art form: it is ephemeral. Ephemeral – this is a loaded word; full of nuances and new meanings it can mean: fleeting; short-lived; transitory; momentary; transient, brief; short, temporary; passing; impermanent; evanescent – all of this in brief moment of time.  It is not long lasting – it tumbles any time. Even while you are creating...

Monday, 21 November 2022

Number two 22.11.2022

What is his story? Help him to understandStones, wood, Petria, colour, texture and ... Had my early morning walk and pottered around my land art-doodles on the pavement [side-walk]. My one friend, I met him at genealogy, referred to this pottering around as land art-doodles and I like it. It encapsulates the gist of it. I cannot go into the wild like Strijdom Van Der Merwe  or Andrew Goldsworthy and create their incredible ephemeral...