Andy Goldsworthy

For this class activity, my partner (sushi) and i were very interested in this piece of work.

This work looks very mysterious and very interesting. this is actually made of sheets of ice of different shape, size and thickness. This work also made us wonder about the process of which the piece was made. the smooth reflective surface of the ice, reflects light in all directions making it look as if it is glowing. This created a very magical yet mysterious atmosphere as we start to wonder what was enclosed within the work. This work is site-specific to us as we feel that the strong contrast of the light and dark of the ball of ice and the dark black back ground really brings the subject matter forward and catches the attention of the viewer. The site at which this work is placed is also in a very natural environment, complementing the ice which is a natural material, making the man mande ball of ice feel some how possible to find in everyday life. Furthermore, the geometric shapes and the lines created by the different shapes and sides of the sides of the sheet of line makes it look like there is slight cubist influence in it. The stillness of the ball of ice balancing as if it could topple with a small breeze makes it feel like time has stopped and also creates a zen feeling to it. Being the bright focal point, the background becomes the negative space of the work very diffent from some as usually white blank spaces are seen as negative spaces.

We were given tasks to create our own Andy Goldsworthy inspired art work.

So this was done with a few others when we were sitting under a tree!! <3 however we all feel that this was unsucessful.

from the works of Andy Goldsworthy, we concluded that he usually uses very natural materials like stones, pebbles or leaves. We gathered leaves and twigs and tried to create a circle with the twigs showing the spiral that always appear in Goldsworthy's works. However, since we were working with mother nature, no two twigs were the same and hence it didnt have the very uniformed look seen in Goldsworthy's works. Then we proceeded to use dried leaves to create a 'blooming' effect where the leaves bloom out from that circle from the darkes to the lightes. And we faced the same problem as the twigs where the leaves were all of different shade and sizes and the greatest problem was that they were not flat. we tried pinning them flat with twigs and it just ended up a mess.

And then.............

BLOW WIND BLOW!!! Everything flew and it ended up like this...

Hence, in Andy Goldsworthy's works, it is very hard to create what he had done as we need to learn to work with mother nature and actually examine it and use it to our advantage. It was not simply about putting things together but also planning was a important part of it.

The creation of the focal point was not easy and that also leads to eye movement. It is hard to obtain defined line and geometric shape when it comes to nature as nothing is perfect and nor are they the same. ^^


And here's shuhui (i think) to say HI!!! <333

(NOTE: the brances behind her looks Andy-Goldsworthy-ish~~) :D