repetitive action minus action

site specific project

Duration: 2 minutes and 4 seconds

Materials: Recycled Newsprint, Wood, toilet paper, notebook paper

The sources I used are Andy Goldsworthy and Tara Donovan. We just recently viewed them in class and after watching the film on Goldsworthy, I found myself wanting to work with materials made naturally, found in nature. Then after learning about Donovan I wanted to try and make something out of simple, cheap, not normal art materials. My other source is the awareness of Earth Day. So, with the combination of Goldsworthy's natural materials and donovans simple materals and then the idea of Earth day, I decided to do my project on a concept tha tenvironmentalists enforce to better the earth: Recycling!

My audience will obviously be those individuals who push and celebrate Earth day regularly and those who are fighting to properly take care of the environment. The audience will be engaging in the work by looking at the photos since the format of the presentation will be in photos. I think that presenting this project in photos will present the clear "picture". The audience can take in the project at their own rate. It will make the concept of the project permanent in a way, solid.

So I kept seeing all of these references to Earth day while I was brainstorming for project ideas and I decided to do my project on it. I tried to look for a site that had a tree and a pretty plain areas surrounding the tree without any grass. I decided to make a recycling symbol around the tree. I made sure to keep the tree in the middle since it's the original source or paper (which we recycle) I then made the three arrows out of three different objects. I made the first arrow out of wood chips that I collected around the site. The wood chips represent a form of the wood before it is processed into paper. I then assembled then into an arrow shape. The second arrow is made up of layers of notebook paper because that is one form that a tree might eventually take. The second arrow is made up of toilet paper, because, like the notebook paper, that is another form. These arrows point to eachother to show how the circle/pattern repearts itself, in an effort to conserve/save trees which in turn helps to save earth. Hence earth day.

Sources:

-Goldsworthy, Andy. Thomas Riedelsheimer. Rivers and Tides. Skyline Productions Ltd. (2003)
- Donovan, Tara. Ace Gallery. Brooklyn, New York. <http://www.acegallery.net/artistmenu.php?Artist=8> April 18, 2008
- Earth Day