Grade seven exploratory art students studied the works of Andy Goldsworthy
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| Art students from SAMS created a work of "ephemeral" art in the style of British contemporary artist Andy Goldsworthy. In his work, Goldsworthy uses natural materials such as leaves, stone, ice, and sand. Often these works of art last only a short time. For example, ice melts, leaves blow away, sand is covered by the tide. The point of this type of work is to capture the changes as they occur. Goldsworthy does this by photographing the art as it evolves and eventually disappears. |
All students were challenged to think of an idea using
only the natural materials available for the season. The design had to be large
enough and simple enough that all 85 plus students could take an active part
in it’s creation. The work also had the limitation of successfully completing
a section in a 45 minute class period. Briana Joubert created the winning design. Briana created a design based on six spirals , 1 to represent each team, positioned to create a tree. We adapted Brianna’s design to the materials available,namely snow and footpaths. On February 28th the five successive classes walked out of doors to the field below the library. they walked in single file creating a spiral footpath. They walked from outside to inside always spiraling in, tighter and tighter to a center. They firmly packed the path as they spiraled back out and down the trunk of our tree. With each class , the trunk became bigger and bigger representing the strength of the trunk and metaphorically the support system of our school. Ms. Blaisdell , our trusty librarian took pictures every step of the way, thus creating a visual record of our total creative progression. The best view of the final sculpture was from the library. The final tree, once completed surpassed all of our expectations. We watched it undergo its seasonal nature made changes; two snow storms and then rain. Parts of two spirals were still visible as of Wednesday March 28th. |