scoping out trees

updating a couple of different events. trying to find places to do my final project- specifically trees. there are a lot in the yard and park behind my house so i'm looking to do it there. here are some trees!

I'm really looking for good branch spacings. Again my project is basically using plastic to cover the spacing between the branches creating a hole in the middle somewhere to funnel water.

Hollywood Cemetery + Valley Curtain = Idea?

Christo's Valley Curtain

I really love this piece. It gave me inspiration to integrate the degenerating tombstone with water- and I have a sort of decent idea. I'd like to string a curtain like Cristo's between branches, put a hole in it near the center for drainage, and below the hole I have a piece of wood, level with the ground easily covered that becomes revealed upon rain? Perhaps it'd need to be in some sort of sand pile or something. 

water + sand

 Well that looks pretty neat I'd say and this wasn't even a designed piece, just an observation. Perhaps I can pool rocks into the idea?

Hollywood Cemetery

tree roots in embankment, spreading through 'cairn'

akin to the vietnam memorial

overgrown grave stone

dead plant juxtaposes green grass, appropriate in a graveyard

deterioration of tombstone

cairn meets gravestone

lack of tree promotes circular overgrowth

the light leaves seem to bend the heavy metal

Hollywood Cemetery is awesome first off. There are some serious monolithic gravestones- one of which I could not find for some reason, and it was the reason I went there. I found a lot of inspiration here. I really like the idea of moss overgrowing the tombstones. I think in my final project I'd like to facilitate some sort of overgrowth of some seemingly tough structure (stone, or metal is in the last image). The overgrown grave stone that is level with the earth seems to be the most applicable. I don't see myself working with stone necessarily (it'd probably be super difficult) but perhaps wood? I also want to integrate water- perhaps that will be my method of increasing the life and entropy of the work.

rain, raft

It was raining outside and I had a big sterilite contain outside from trying to teastain some maps and it filled with water over the course of the night. There were a bunch of sticks lying around so I figured I would arrange them and see what happened. The best construct I came up with was this raft. It might be neat to watch it during a actually rain was it'd move the raft about, and depending on the heaviness of the rain even destroy it. I think water is my favorite medium. I'd like to integrate it into my final project somehow. 

More ideas to come.

walkabouts erosion

vined fence

lines in the sand

These two images were just taken walking around. The lines in the sand create an nice but unintentional image. I think I may draw drawing some in the sand as it is a ephemeral- a characteristic very seldom evident outside of earth art. The vined fence is actually a re-take from before. It actually make just be setting the stage to some work later on- hanging something from the limbs perhaps?

Making Mud, Moving Sticks

I tried erosion as a medium. I taped my hose to an outside table and then laid my camera and stand across the table. I built a 'little campfire' to see how it would react to the water. I see the little rock and stick pile as mankind collecting things and the hose being the force of nature- mankind holding up as much resistance as it can to being consumed by it.

I have an idea for my final project! 

It is inspired by Smithson's spiral jetty being hidden for many years underneath of water and then reemerging.  I may make a bowl with a hole that leads to a ramp. Below the ramp I want to make a simple art piece level with the ground. It will be easily covered up but when it rains the water should collect in the bowl, exit through the ramp and wash away the ground below, revealing the piece.

play of man and nature

red flags: man claims nature

entropy: detached ware from pole

rusting: nature ousts man

nnneeeaaatttt

Great composition. Rule of thirds- the red bottom contrasts really well with the blue sky and the green acts as a calming intermediary. The glass and man's hand display man's presence and interaction with the surrounding wildlife. The creation of the peak with the bottom of the glass shows the perspective of the image (the man's point of view) and create continuity between the subject and the photographer.