PROJECT #6 > Nature Inspired

Project # 6

Working with and from the Earth students will create a

Site-specific Installation

Andy Goldsworthy inspired, please, watch this:

Video: Andy Goldsworthy, Rivers and Tides

When the weather gets better I want people to go outside and make use of natural materials for site specific installations

The Earth is bountiful!

And, resilient !!!!!!

This is a two week long project DUE on FRI APR 24th @ 6 PM
Your installations are to be inserted into interior and/or exterior spaces -

Rules:

Watch Andy Goldsworthy, Rivers & Tides above and all the YouTube links provided herewith
You need to figure out the material you wish to work with in 4 trial-and-error "sketches" upload to Fb Group site
Your completed project #6 needs to be made from a natural material
Your completed project #6 needs to be larger than 18"
Your completed project #6 needs to be installed in an interior and/or exterior space
Your completed project #6 needs needs to be inserted into a space that makes perfect sense to the material/subject matter at hand
Your completed project #6 needs to be inserted into a space that is incongruent to the material/subject matter at hand
You need to take 10 photographs of your project #6 from different perspectives
You need to take four overall installation shots
As you can see from the lower images, you can use drawing as the application to activate your installation
You need to write a 200 word proposal about the project details DUE FRI APR 17 @ 6 PM and send to jpepper@cazenovia.edu
You need to keep up with the calendar to upload in-progress images to Fb Group site
It may be a visual love letter to the world to heal us!
You need to be inventive!!
You need to be excellent time management keepers!!!
You need to be creative!!!!
You need to surprise us!!!!!

Inspirational artists to look at:
Andy Goldsworthy

Tom Friedman
Tom Friedman in 3 minutes

Concentric Circles, bar of soap with human hair

Pencil Sphere

Spaghetti Sphere

Mona Hatoum

Flour Drawing

Hair Necklace

Vic Muniz

Ted Talk Vik Muniz artist plays with wire, sugar, string, chocolate and diamonds

Vik Muniz makes art from pretty much anything, be it shredded paper, wire, clouds or diamonds. Here he describes the thinking behind his work and takes us on a tour of his incredible images.This talk was presented at an official TED conference, and was featured by our editors on the home page.

Ana Mendieta

Performance Artists, Ana Mendieta works:

Ana Mendieta Performace Artist > Traces

Ana Mendieta: ArtStop: The San Diego Museum of Art

Marcel Broodthaers (Dada artist)

One of Marcel Broodthaers prime materials were eggshells

Wolfgang Liab

Installation work created with flower pollen and rice

30,000 piles of rice with bee pollen

House cast with white rice

Wanita Ini Kreasikan

Wanita Ini Kreasikan, South African contemporary artist

Michelle Stuart

Worked alongside of her geologist father, collecting earth samples and rubbing them into #140 paper as Earth Drawings in the 1970s

Patrick Ireland

Patrick Ireland . Brian O'Dougherty House Call made from peat bricks

Yamamoto Motoi

installations made from iodized salt

Jeff Koons

Puppy made from planted petunias

Newgrange Ireland

Stonehenge . UK

Prehistory: Mesolithic carving

Tree of Life

STUDENT PROPOSALS

FROM CORTNEY R.

From: Pepper, Jennifer <jpepper@cazenovia.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 3:07:13 PM
To: Reynolds, Cortney J. <cjreynolds@cazenovia.edu>
Subject: Re: Project #6

This sounds fascinating Cortney, and really OUT - OF - THE - BOX!!!

Bravo, good for you!

Well thought out!

The yolk will give you rich, highly saturated color.

Both yolk and whites will act a bit like a glue when dry.

Experiment with the shell -- it may be stronger when it has not been boiled, I am not quite sure.

You may want to "blow" out some of the yolk and egg from a raw egg - pricking both 'ends.'

Try the stability and strength of the shell.

I would also do a test of the hardness of a boiled egg, although you would not get the whole shell.

This sounds so experimental -- I am proud of you.

Look at Marcel Broothaers work for sure, he worked with egg shells all his adult life as a Dada artist.

May I post your proposal?

JEN PEPPER
Professor of Studio Art + Design

Program Director

Director of the Art Gallery in Reisman Hall
CAZENOVIA COLLEGE

Due to the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the global

Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the CAZENOVIA COLLEGE ART GALLERY has adjusted operations for the health and safety of our community. As the spring semester mounts many student exhibitions, exhibitions will move to virtual gallery spaces that may be accessed from our gallery pages on the college website at www.cazenovia.edu/art-gallery beginning in April.

All teaching and office hours have moved to remote spaces.

Contact me at jpepper@cazenovia.edu

In health!

jenpepper.com

From: Reynolds, Cortney J. <cjreynolds@cazenovia.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 2:48 PM
To: Pepper, Jennifer <jpepper@cazenovia.edu>
Subject: Project #6

Hi Pepper,

I’ve run through a lot of different materials that I have available to me for the nature inspired project, and I was not really happy with all of them so I kept searching on Pinterest. The more I thought, the more I liked the idea of working with eggs, both the whites and yolk as well as the shell. I want to create a base out of the egg white fried to create some sort of nest, making indentations and cutting way with a knife as necessary, and slightly fry the york and assemble some reptile in a similar way and surround it with a broken eggshell to appear as if it had hatched. I’ve seen many pictures of details carved into eggshells that I would love to incorporate as well, but I will have to test it and see if it is possible with the tools I have at my disposal. I want to install this in a pan or possibly on a plate, as well as out on my driveway, or even a real nest if I can find one. Let me know what you think, thank you!

From Abigail Wilhelm

Wilhelm, Abigail L.

Fri 4/17/2020 3:50 PM

Pepper, Jennifer

For project #6 I want to create a "hermit crab hut" from rocks I found outside from my driveway. I'm most likely going to use hot glue to secure them together and build them up in rings, leaving space for a doorway. Unfortunately I do not have a hermit crab so I can't include that in the installation. I plan on displaying it obviously in my driveway, and maybe in my bedroom surrounded by soft, comfortable living items to juxtapose against the sharp and rough rocks. I've had trouble finding inspiration/materials for this project, so I'm hoping to evolve it aa I work.

From Noel Evelyn Madden

Noel's Project #6 proposal

Project #6

For project #6, I would like to take advantage of the nature I have in my backyard to

create a form of a frog using a rock, dirt, mud, moss, grass and weeds. I plan to use a big rock from the backyard as the main structure of the frog and I would build up moist dirt around it and on top of it. I would shape it’s head, arms and legs with the dirt using my hands to sculpt it. After, I plan to use moss to cover the surface of the dirt along with grass, weeds and possibly flowers too. I would like to use nature to create the texture of the frog and mimic the pattern that frogs have on their back. I have considered the weather and plan to cover the piece with a tarp in case it rains. I was inspired by photos from Google after searching for nature inspired sculptures and came across sculptures made with dirt and moss. My grandma came up with the idea of the frog as I wanted to create one for my cardboard construction project. Now that I’ve considered the idea again, I plan to create this frog with a length of at least eighteen inches and make it look aesthetically pleasing in it’s environment as if it belongs there. I’m super excited to get started on this project and I think it will be a lot of fun!!

From JEP >

I am excited that your frog has evolved from Project #4 Noel. Thank your Grandmother! Let's hope for excellent weather so you can build the work in-situ (in location) so you don't have to move it.

I think it will be loads of fun as well! As you add materials to it, of course it will grow!

Here's something I did from a piece of limestone, a subtractive carving in stone. It now sits in my garden as its mascot!

I saw a frog in the stone, and carved away at it! The back legs are in flight. It's all roughed out stone, the light grey, but the eyes are highly polished, so looks like a different stone.