Attracted by Trees: Art in the Landscape by Patrick Dougherty, Roxy Paine and Konstantin Dimopoulos (original) (raw)

Regeneration on Tree Mountain: Earth Art by Agnes Denes

American Scientist, 2013

The health of the planet is in a precarious state and cries out for large ecological restorations more than ever. Earth artists often use natural materials and forms just to dazzle us with their imaginative constructions. They may have to stretch themselves to embrace this more complicated phase of their movement, making art that emulates Earth processes, as Agnes Denes surely has. Her Tree Mountain project involves 11,000 people planting 11,000 trees in nature-based mathematical patterns, so that they have a personal investment in maintaining this forest restoration art work. Eco-artist Katherine Miller also uses geometry to construct a water-cleasing bioswale in a local park. (This version of the essay is slightly different and longer than the published one.)

The Hollywood Forest Story-ecosocial art practice for the Symbiocene

Minding Nature, Vol. 12. No. 3 (Fall 2019), 2019

A review article about Irish-based New Zealander Cathy Fitzgerald's doctoral creative practice research into an expanded ecological art practice, which she refers to as 'eco-social art practice'. This draws from review of pioneering ecological art practices and her own practice that explores new-to-Ireland continuous cover forestry. Cathy explains such practices as expanded, ethical social enquiries. She clarifies the critical position of creative activities in these practices and how such expanded durational practices are best collated and shared with audiences using blogging. Eco-social art practices are foremost open-ended question-based processes, inviting communities to explore their relationship to their places in the ecological emergency. Cathy concludes that eco-social art practices are memes for the Symbiocene - the new sustainable era that succeeds the Anthropocene. They contribute to The Great Turning on how to live well with the Earth and all its inhabitants. This article appeared in Minding Nature, Vol. 12. No. 3 (Fall 2019), a publication of the Center for Humans and Nature (www.humansandnature.org).

Ecologies of Landscape (exhibition)

Ecologies of Landscape gathers work by nine highly accomplished artists from Canada and abroad to re-imagine our perceptual, aesthetic, and ethical relationships with our home planet. In diverse media and from a variety of cultural and geographical perspectives, these artists ponder what our connections to the Earth might be in this time of widespread concern about climate change. Especially in Canada, landscape painting has been the dominant way to approach and appreciate what we construe as ‘nature’ as well as our own identities. With increasing urgency since the 1960s, however, artists worldwide have grappled with the inadequacies of the landscape genre amidst concerns over land stewardship and the environmental degradation of our shared planet. Works in this exhibition reconceive land and landscape as presented and experienced in art.

Landscape: art and ecological thinking

2021

Never more than at the present time, so fraught with difficulty, has the question of mans's relationship with nature been so topical. A complex, dynamic relationship in which the progressive technical emancipation of man has accompanied a growing need for nature to be safeguarded, preserved and protected – the result of an inexorable inversion of roles which has seen man move from being the victim of uncontrollable forces to the principal destroyer of the earth which nourishes him, and of the ecosystem of which he is an integral part. This paper is a brief study on the artistical approach to ecology in the 20th cent.

Public Abstract Wooden Sculpture Park: From tree abundance to important environmental art

Environment-behaviour proceedings journal, 2024

This research uses a lot of tree trunks to build an abstract art studio sculpture of a four-legged animal. Sketched, drawn, and scaled animal trait models represented human vegetation management at a highway and byway road site. Use the right tool and joiner wooden technique with screws and nails in the studio. The 'running forest' series was created after finishing and cleaning, using wood stain to preserve the wood and enamel paint for artistic purposes before the artist's impression technique stimulated or relocated the sculpture to its real location. This symbolic project politely communicated with the community through wooden sculpture-based environmental art.

“In the Company of Trees,”

ANTENNAE, Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, UK http://antennae.org.uk/ANTENNAE%20ISSUE%2017.docx.pdf

Front Cover Image: Giovanni Aloi, from the Plant Revolution series, sketch, 2010 © Giovanni Aloi the question: "what is it like to be a plant?" through an adaptation of a book titled The Beauty of Being Plant (yet to become available in English) written by Patrick Blanc, a French botanist who invented the now more and more popular "green walls". His bittersweet narrative is counterpointed by an essay titled Aspects of plants intelligence (2003) by Professor Anthony Trewavas. The essay, a straight scientific offering, bravely addresses the concept of intelligence in plants and goes on to argue that, that not only are plants intelligent beings, but that they are also capable of learning through memory -plenty of food for thought.