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A found cairn-collection on Grace Street, Amanda Schutt, 2008

There are a couple of very interesting blogs from our group that I think deserve your attention. Check out Renée Knepper's ... Amanda Schutt's, Carissa Schmidt's, Ally Woosley's, ... and Brenden Luci's, Chelsea Person's, Ashley McCord's, Michael Gilbert's blogs. These blogs have great images and dialog and critique on earth art, new and old.

Read the text for the Final Project (on Blackboard) for more info on your blogs ...

Robin Lasser: Vigils and Remnants

Robin Lasser, Candlelight Vigil, 2003

“This ... body of work is both anthropological and personal, having to do with journeys, dreams, and the unconscious. These visions are translated into a reality as the invented archaeological constructions are assembled into the appropriate sites. Each site is assembled, photographed, and dismantled within one day. The temporal nature of the constructions parallels the short life of the Navajo SAND PAINTINGS. Shamans use these paintings during healing ceremonies. The sands are swept away by sunset. The brief life of these archeological scenes mirrors the ephemeral nature of our existence. The photograph is the sole trace of the original construction. Like a tomb, the image's role is to ensure the preservation of an idea. I offer, from my protected environments, bits of light bundled and transplanted the photograph as artifact” -- Robin Lasser

Francis Alÿs - Green Line Trail

“Sometimes Doing Something Poetic Can Become Political, and Sometimes Doing Something Political Can Become Poetic” - Francis Alÿs

Francis Alÿs, Green Line Trail, Jerusalem, 2005

Francis Alÿs - born in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1959 and has lived in Mexico City for almost 20 years, trained as an engineer and architect. The Green Line Trail, 2005 – Green paint dripping as artist walks along the armistice boundary through Jerusalem that Moshe Dayan drew on a map in green pencil after the Israeli-Arab war of 1948. “How can art remain politically significant without assuming a doctrinal standpoint or aspiring to social activism?”

NYTimes, Thoughtful Wanderings of a Man with a Can, March 13, 2007, Holland Cotter

Art in America, February 2008, Gregory Volk

Heath Bunting & Kayle Brandon: Crossing Borders

BorderXing, 2002

"I do consider myself a combatant. The artist doesn't just gaze. It's not just the perception of reality that is up for grabs, it's reality itself." - Heath Bunting

See Kayle
Brandon’s Site where there's lots of
places to go ...

... and The
Status Project

... and
for more info the Brown
University site has a good article
as well as the NYTimes ...

Maya Lin's Wave Field

The NYTimes had a great article this Sunday on Maya Lin's (Vietnam Veterans Memorial) newest work - Wave Field - at the Storm King Art Center in New York ... Check out the video:

WAVE FIELD

... You can read more on the NYTIMES site ....