Yew Dell Gardens is the polar opposite of the landscape I usually site my art. Where I’m used to the flux and drama of the Ohio riverscape…at Yew Dell Gardens…man is the measure. It is a lovely and ordered experience walking around the various interesting buildings and admiring the skill of the gardeners. From a [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Garden Art Opening
Posted in Art, Green, art and environment, creativity, nature, public art, recycled art, sculpture, tagged Abe Lincoln, animal art, garden art, garden sculpture, Yew Dell Gardens on May 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My Foaming Brain
Posted in Absurd, Art, Falls of the Ohio, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, Ohio River, Styrofoam, art and environment, creativity, ecosytem, fresh water, nature, public art, recycled art, sculpture, watershed, tagged brain, Living Lands and Waters, mud, recycle, river art on May 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
May is just about history. Despite a wet beginning, rallied to become a rose of a month. I was outside as much as I could get away to make art and watch nature. In retrospect, I did make quite a few objects and images that having this blog helped boost along. My latest river figure [...]
Styro-Storm Bird
Posted in Absurd, Art, Falls of the Ohio, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, Ohio River, Styrofoam, art and environment, birding, creativity, ecosytem, fresh water, nature, nature photography, public art, recycled art, sculpture, watershed, tagged flight, Kingbird, state park, Styrofoam bird on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In my attempts to photograph the illusion of a flying bird, I’ve resorted to some low-tech solutions. I first tried suspending my polystyrene models using cast-off fishing line found all too commonly on the riverbank. Fishermen, please take your waste monofilament with you! But, this solution was too obvious in the pictures and the models did [...]
Baby Sun with Rattle
Posted in Absurd, Art, Falls of the Ohio, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, Ohio River, Styrofoam, art and environment, birding, creativity, ecosytem, fresh water, nature, nature photography, public art, recycled art, sculpture, watershed, tagged skipper butterfly, sun figure, yellow warbler on May 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Today was one of those days where the objects I found really directed the figure I made. I came across the broken passifier and baby rattle and wondered what our star would look like personified as an infant? It is afterall almost summer. I used pieces of bark to frame the head. The eyes and nose [...]
Orange-collared Thickbill
Posted in Absurd, Art, Falls of the Ohio, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, Ohio River, Styrofoam, art and environment, birding, birds and birding, creativity, ecosytem, fresh water, nature, nature photography, public art, recycled art, sculpture, watershed, tagged Art, birding, birds, creativity, riverscape, willow on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The shoe/figure from the previous post wasn’t the only piece I made that day. Here’s another in my Styro-bird series I call the “Orange-collared Thickbill”. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that somewhere among the world’s 10,000 plus bird species is an actual bird called this! All the elements came from this day’s walk. The [...]
Magic in the Air
Posted in Absurd, Art, Falls of the Ohio, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, Ohio River, Styrofoam, art and environment, creativity, ecosytem, fresh water, nature, public art, recycled art, sculpture, watershed, tagged Abbey Road on the River, Art, Beatles, Belle of Louisville, recycled art, willow on May 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Today was one of those unusual days were you couldn’t tell the color of the sky. Neither blue nor gray it just seemed heavy with humidity. Wafting on the air currents…fluff from willow catkins formed drifts against the landscape. I have never seen so much out at one time. I came across this brush in the [...]
Superimposements?
Posted in Art, Falls of the Ohio, Louisville, Kentucky, Ohio River, art and environment, creativity, fresh water, nature, nature photography, recycled art, unusual collection, tagged found objects, photography, river, toy boat on May 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Well, I think I just made up a new word…although I don’t believe the Oxford Dictionary will be calling me up any time soon. I just couldn’t think of the right thing to call these three images that seemed to fit them. The idea is simple enough. I overlay a found object ( like these [...]
Found Sign Collection
Posted in Falls of the Ohio, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, Ohio River, art and environment, creativity, fresh water, nature, recycled art, unusual collection, watershed, tagged collection, found objects, hand painted sign, hex, river art on May 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Just posted another in a series of river collections I have made at the Falls of the Ohio State Park. This series can be seen in my Pages section. The image above is a detail from one of the found signs. What man created, nature altered. There is a very contemporary feel to these lucky [...]
Sculpture in the Dell
Posted in Art, Falls of the Ohio, Green, art and environment, creativity, nature, public art, recycled art, sculpture, tagged Crestwood Kentucky, invitational exhibit, limestone, scarecrow, sculpture, Yew Dell Gardens on May 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Delivered my piece today for Yew Dell Gardens 2nd Annual “Sculpture in the Dell” invitational. I was honored to be asked even though my work doesn’t fit the standard of what garden art generally looks like. I asked if there was a garden on the grounds that could use a scarecrow and as it happens…a [...]
Black Robe and Beaver
Posted in Falls of the Ohio, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, Ohio River, Styrofoam, art and environment, birding, creativity, ecosytem, fresh water, nature, nature photography, public art, recycled art, watershed, tagged beaver, missionary, La Belle Riviere, duck eggs, relational art on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Had a few hours to play around and so I constructed this small figure fairly quickly. It’s just a reminder that among the first Europeans to venture down the Ohio River were French missionaries who called these waters La Belle Riviere…..the Beautiful River. This piece is constructed from Styrofoam, sticks, acorns, plastic, and what appears [...]
