Ever laid on your back and just
watched the clouds scurry past?
Imagined yourself in the clouds,
or projected imaginary forms onto
them (that one really looks like
a dragon!), watched the shift in
colours and marvelled at views that
are there any time for the taking if
only we remember to look up?
This calming pastime has been
given an upgrade by artist James
Turrell. jamesturrell.com
He creates Skyspaces all over the
world - specific buildings designed
to capture the view of the sky
without the distraction of the world
around, using architecture and light
technology to enhance the experience.
JAMES TURRELL – SPACE THAT SEES
by Yoav Bezaleli
Embed video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6XQBf-pd1E
However, can you ever reach a
point where Land Art doesn’t
feel like art? In 1967 Richard
Long walked up and down a field
trampling down grass into one
straight line. The photograph of “A
Line Made by Walking” now hangs
in the Tate Gallery.
www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/
long-a-line-made-bywalking-p07149
The following year Richard Long
went much further, creating “A Ten
Mile Walk England” a piece of art
which consists of walking 10 miles
in an exact line on a compass
bearing of 290 degrees, not
deviating for the contours, across
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copyright Richard Long
part of Exmoor – what most
people would class as a ramble
rather than art. The evidence for
this piece of art was a line drawn
across an ordnance survey map.
www.tate.org.uk/research/
publications/tate-papers/17/tenmiles-on-exmoor The debate
about how to interpret work like
this has raged ever since. Is the
map the art or the walk? It is
part of the whole debate of what
defines art itself.
This summer, take a leaf out of the
land artists’ canvas; enjoy nature,
create with nature, connect with
nature. Get out and about and
discover nature wherever you are.