I have begun to look at artists who work in environments or create environments
I watched Forest, Field & Sky: Art out of Nature and how these six artists relate to nature such as Andy Goldsworthy, James Turrell, David Nash (tree circle), Julie Brook (fire pits in water) and Richard Long (path)
Although I find their work interesting, in particular James Turrell’s work and Julie Brooks, I didn’t feel much of a connection or relation to my work. I researched further into work in forests and came across the following artists that I felt connections with.
Joakim Kaminsky & Maria Poll – Medelpad – Sweden
The artists were working to connect the trees to time and worked to create a installations that visualise memories of earlier generations of pine trees and perhaps comment on the artificial regeneration of these forests. The mirrors are placed creating a horizontal cut or separation of the forest
These are images from site specific installations/interventions in landscapes, primarily rooted in the forest. They are interesting in the play between the horizon and the eye line and for me, they appear like collage in a site specific way.
I was drawn to this work by the use of intervention by the artist to create mythical disturbances in natural settings. Doorways and gateways feature heavily in her work whilst the audience are caught in confusions and uncertainties as to whether the material hovering are ascending or descending. The doorways and gateways make me think of portals between two worlds, – the mythical fairytale and underworld.
“The truth resides in places that are invisible. Once you are aware of that there is a different world out of sight, you will be living in a different way.” Kuribayashi 2015
Kuribayashi’s work explores the invisible realm and it’s boundaries. His installations delve into the invisible world, the places that we do not see in everyday life such as the under the floor or seabed or behind the ceiling. Since the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011, Kuribayashi has challenged the invisibility of the contamination of radioactive material and other nuclear activities that are run underground and the effect it has on the life of the earth.
I have been thinking about how my installations in the woods are akin to drawing on a large scale which is why I looked briefly at Holmes work. I enjoy the impossibility of his work filling the interior space and the beautiful line that is created in situ.