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Our installation project will be influenced by the artist Andy Goldsworthy.  Here’s some of his work which was featured in Scholastic Art, April/May 2005.  There is a great documentary of his work, “Rivers and Tides”.  Check it out.

Rowan leaves laid around hole, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, 25 October, 1987 © Andy Goldsworthy 

“When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are important.”  -Andy Goldsworthy  

Andy only uses materials found in mother nature in his work.

If he needs glue, he uses frozen water.  He refers to this frozen spiral – made by attaching individual icicles with water – as the “tree’s soul.”

Reconstructed icicles around a tree, 28 December, 1995.  Glen Marlin Falls, Dumphrieshire, Scottland. © Andy Goldsworthy

“When I touch a rock, I am touching and working the space around it.”  -Andy Goldsworthy

Broken pebbles / scratched white with another stone, June, 1985,  St. Abbs, The Borders © Andy Goldsworthy 

     Blue pebbles rubbed with red stones to make edge, St. Abbs, The Borders, June 1984.  © Andy Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy spends hours perfecting his compositions, like this floating work made from iris leaves and red berries.  

   Iris blades pinned together with thorns, 29 August, 1987.  © Andy Goldsworthy 

Nearly every color hue in the rainbow, from warm to cool, can be found in this vertical line of leaves.  

   Cherry leaves, Swindale Beck Wood, Cumbria, November 1984. © Andy Goldsworthy 

   Japanese maple leaves stitched together to make a floating chain,  Ouchiyama-Mura, Japan 21-22 November 1987. © Andy Goldsworthy 

On May 23 we will preview the video “Rivers and Tides”.  On Friday, May 26 the students will be travelling to Distinctive Gardens to create their environmental installations on site.  Let’s hope it doesn’t rain!

The following are student thoughts on the environment and their project prior to it’s exectution.