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Impressions
de Lumière - from an artist in residency at L'Arbre de Vie / Chateau de Blacons, France - 2007 - © Lloyd Godman
Construction
& installation of - LEAF
Impressions - Impressions de Lumière - 2007
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22
Aug 2007
The
morning was spent at the market sampling fresh foods, there
was a huge down pour of rain for several hours.
Later
in the afternoon, the weather cleared enough to begin installing
the news paper leaf shapes on the lawn outside. |
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There
is a connection in this technique to the the work PLANeT IV where a template was laid on the ground to grow an
image into the grass. The idea was first noted by Archimedes. |
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The
leaf shapes were arranges pointing towards the pergola structure
for the carbon work. |
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Stones
from the drive were laid on top of the newspaper forms to
weigh them down and also to form the rib structure of the
leafs. |
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Detail
of the stones laid on the paper leaves |
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Choosing
and arranging the stones I noticed there were two types.
Some stones were smooth and rounded, alluvial stones, perhaps
from the local Drome river. They reminded me of the stones
from the Clutha River from the Last
Rivers Song project of 1983-4.
The others had been through some form of quarrying process
and had been shattered and broken which reminded me of the
quarried rock from Blackhead - Secrets
from the Forgotten Tapu project - 1986 |
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