escher is still alive
Something about that summer breeze...
Made with Julia Brooklyn AKA LandArtforKids a few weeks ago at a place with a fabulous expanse of ancient limestone pavement near to where we live.
It's been a bit of a washout this summer, we haven't had much warm weather at all, it has rained a lot and autumn is just around the corner. It is raining right now but unusually for an August bank holiday this weekend is supposed to be superbly summery with record August BH temperatures predicted. Climate breakdown is going to bring record after record as the next few years pass by.
We often make these little leaf sculptures when we are at festivals and the way they flutter in the wind is so full of the feeling brought to you by the summer breeze. The air full of buzzing insects and everything flowers and turning to seed.
The cord hanging them up is made from juncus grass and their core is fluffy and white like polystyrene tubes.
One time I neglected to strip out the inner white stuff and when I later inspected one of them, it had created a white corkscrew spiral all the way up the stem as it twisted only clockwise in the wind.
It's the delight of ephemeral nature art when mother nature herself has such a guiding touch in whatever is created. The fundamental interconnectedness of all things.
This tree, once decorated, looked really intriguing from a distance. In silhouette they appeared like flashing blobs, on-off, on-off, on-off-on with no explanation as to quite what they were.
Two in love kids were wandering around the hill, hand in hand, carefree and happy in that way that only summer days can bring.
They came to talk to us entranced by what they saw. They though they were bats or birds hanging from the tree. Perhaps discovering they were leaf sculptures was a bit disappointing and continuing mystery would've been better.
As soon as they arrive those endless summers days are gone again (even when it is always bloody raining) as the seasons rumble on inevitably.
Embrace the transient my friends.
Something about that summer breeze...
Made with Julia Brooklyn AKA LandArtforKids a few weeks ago at a place with a fabulous expanse of ancient limestone pavement near to where we live.
It's been a bit of a washout this summer, we haven't had much warm weather at all, it has rained a lot and autumn is just around the corner. It is raining right now but unusually for an August bank holiday this weekend is supposed to be superbly summery with record August BH temperatures predicted. Climate breakdown is going to bring record after record as the next few years pass by.
We often make these little leaf sculptures when we are at festivals and the way they flutter in the wind is so full of the feeling brought to you by the summer breeze. The air full of buzzing insects and everything flowers and turning to seed.
The cord hanging them up is made from juncus grass and their core is fluffy and white like polystyrene tubes.
One time I neglected to strip out the inner white stuff and when I later inspected one of them, it had created a white corkscrew spiral all the way up the stem as it twisted only clockwise in the wind.
It's the delight of ephemeral nature art when mother nature herself has such a guiding touch in whatever is created. The fundamental interconnectedness of all things.
This tree, once decorated, looked really intriguing from a distance. In silhouette they appeared like flashing blobs, on-off, on-off, on-off-on with no explanation as to quite what they were.
Two in love kids were wandering around the hill, hand in hand, carefree and happy in that way that only summer days can bring.
They came to talk to us entranced by what they saw. They though they were bats or birds hanging from the tree. Perhaps discovering they were leaf sculptures was a bit disappointing and continuing mystery would've been better.
As soon as they arrive those endless summers days are gone again (even when it is always bloody raining) as the seasons rumble on inevitably.
Embrace the transient my friends.