greenoakzigzag on chesnut leaves | landart

taking pictures of this was rather difficult: much too much sun. but i can say as an englishman living on the continent "better too much sun than too little" :)

 

I was asked by laprune to choose the theme for the land art connections group. I choose water.

 

here's my explanation:

 

You guys kinda took me by surprise, so this is a knee jerk reaction, but maybe that's not such a bad thing.

 

Water's omnipresence has always been a big theme for me although I wasn't always aware of the fact. I was living right on the tip of a peninsula when I started working with landart, and after a while I came to realize what a huge influence it had on me.

 

At that point I started to work with water intentionally. My whole approach changed. For example I exploited the explosive properties of water with my dandelion explosion.

 

Because water is everywhere I think that it doesn't really matter what materials you work with in June. I find the surface of a pond or a stream very inspiring, but water flows through trees and leaves as well. And to work with sand is to to work with something that was formed by water. There's no escaping it.

 

I just hope to provoke positive thoughts about an element that we depend on just as much as the air we breath.

 

Done