Andy Goldsworthy

For my leaf transfer project I was inspired by Andy Goldsworthy's ephemeral sculptures. He too uses photographs to document his work. Their connection to place is as important as the art itself.
Goldsworthy works with nature as a state of constant change which is incredibly important to my Louisiana/Wisconsin project. Not only does that change make up the subject matter, but it also allows the art to be sensitive to weather and season changes. Bringing leaves to their unnatural environment forces a state of change that wouldn't ordinarily occur.

Kate Gilmore

Kate Gilmore's Body of Work exhibition features this piece Love 'em, Leave 'em.

I took inspiration from her combination of concept and technique when struggling with incorporating "assembled form" into my ideas. The staircase structure provides a frame and support for the piece without overwhelming or distracting from the present concept.

Artworks: Perform

This is another book I checked out from the library about performance art. I specifically focused on the chapter entitled Performing the Object but was surprised to find inspiration in a chapter entitled The Performer is in All of Us, giving examples of works in which the audience or public is the performer. This is of interest to me considering my last project was left in the hands of the public. I think other people are so fascinating to study.

Specific artists from this book whose works I found useful to my research included Chris Burden and Jeppe Hein. In similar ways to Vito Acconci, these artists had me questioning how some of these performances could be considered art, which was something I struggled with in my own assignment.

Cabinet of Curiosity 2

Rachel Whiteread fills spaces with concrete and other substances to give validity to emptiness.

Absence creates presence; space becomes solid.

It gives the impression that everything is just a potential shell.

Her exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery shows 100 resin "spaces" which have now become the objects themselves.

These casts of library shelves evoke questions of content: the representation of what can be held in the absence/presence distinction. I think of the information held in the casted books as being removed from the work. I'm inspired by the exploration of nothingness.