Nature Installations: inspiration from your creative guide
Years ago, a friend asked me, “What do you admire so much in others that it borderlines envy in you?”
I like to use this question as a barometer now for what I’m really interested in.
Lately it’s been nature installations.
So I want to share some inspiration with you today, because seeing the wild and wonderful ways that others all over the world are choosing to make and create is inspiring—no matter what your making looks like right now.
So here’s a short one today, but hopefully PACKED with good energy for you.
-I’m amazed by an artist’s ability to be so present to the environment that they’re noticing what they could create in the landscape.
-I’m interested in the impermanence of nature installations and the borrowing we have to do from what’s already created (nothing new under the sun, amiright?).
-I love that these pieces become small and large altars for a moment to a time and place that will never be again.
If you don’t already know, Andy Goldsworthy is the original (at least well-known) nature installation artist. (Don’t @ me about Druids, Celts, and all the women that secretly made nature installations for eons before Goldsworthy… I know about it.) Learning about his work in high school, along with the earth installations of Maya Lin, was my first encounter with collecting and manipulating a natural environment not for commercial, residential, or purely functional use, but for art—for wondering at our relationship to earth, time, space, nature.
If you aren’t familiar with Andy Goldsworthy’s or Maya Lin’s work, please: indulge yourself.
But more recently, some powerful nature installation artists have come on my radar:
Karoline Hjorth + Riita Ikonen’s Eyes As Big As Plates
As you look at the works, what do you notice? What do you feel in your body? Is there discomfort anywhere? Comfort? Does anything feel like home to you?
What questions do you begin asking about landscape? About humanity? About this experience on earth of people and place?
Happy wondering, my friends.
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