When I’m out by the river I’m also thinking about what birds I might see. That’s especially true during the Spring Migration when there’s a good chance I will run across a species I’ve never seen before. In the advent that nothing new comes along…I’m not adverse to making a bird myself! Above is a [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Summer Birds
Posted in Absurd, Art, Falls of the Ohio, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, Ohio River, Originality, Styrofoam, animal art works, animals, art and environment, birding, birds and birding, creativity, ecosytem, environmental art, fresh water, nature, nature photography, public art, recycled art, sculpture, watershed, tagged bird art, birds, blue jay, creativity, found materials, goldfinch, recycled art, river on July 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
What’s in the Bag?
Posted in Absurd, Art, Falls of the Ohio, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, Ohio River, Originality, Styrofoam, animals, art and environment, collections, creativity, ecosytem, environmental art, fresh water, nature, nature photography, public art, recycled art, sculpture, unusual collection, watershed, tagged Art and Life, art supplies, contents of bag, creativity, decorations, Lewis and Clark, plastic toys, river finds, sculpture wreckage on July 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I have been carrying this Lewis and Clark Bicentennial light canvas bag to the Falls since the beginning of this project. Considering the years of use, its held up pretty well. For me, this is one of the key artifacts from this experience. Since 2003, I have filled and them emptied this bag several times [...]
Rain Deer
Posted in Absurd, Art, Falls of the Ohio, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, Ohio River, Originality, Styrofoam, animal art works, animals, art and environment, creativity, ecosytem, environmental art, fresh water, nature, nature photography, public art, recycled art, sculpture, unusual collection, watershed, tagged Art, deer, forest ecosytem, photo essay, photography, site specific art, waterhole, whitetailed deer on July 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I got soaked to the bone on this day. A realization I had in the middle of the downpour was that I couldn’t get any wetter than this and so I just relaxed. I had the whole place to myself, since people smart enough to get out of the rain had done so! The above [...]
Indifferent Machine w/Operator
Posted in Absurd, Art, Falls of the Ohio, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, Ohio River, Originality, Styrofoam, art and environment, creativity, ecosytem, environmental art, fresh water, nature, nature photography, public art, recycled art, sculpture, watershed, tagged extraction, Falls of the Ohio, found objects, Lewis and Clark, machine, soul sucking on July 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Two hundred years later, I’m walking the very ground that Lewis and Clark walked in their exploration of this great land. Our intrepid explorers and their men began and ended their voyage at the Falls of the Ohio. Although my journey isn’t as grand, nevertheless it has been a process of discovery. For six years [...]
Abstract Man in Contexts
Posted in Absurd, Art, Falls of the Ohio, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, Ohio River, Originality, Styrofoam, art and environment, creativity, ecosytem, environmental art, fresh water, nature, nature photography, public art, recycled art, sculpture, watershed, tagged composition, context, Falls of the Ohio, figurative art, photograpy, sculpture, site specific art, Styrofoam on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a spicy, herbal scent coming from the plants and a small garter snake crosses in front of me on the sandy path. You can hear both the river and several songs from a variety of birds in the willow habitat. It’s a cool day for July and relatively overcast. Despite my little treasury of Styrofoam [...]
An Abstract Man
Posted in Absurd, Art, Falls of the Ohio, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, Ohio River, Originality, Styrofoam, animals, art and environment, birds and birding, creativity, ecosytem, environmental art, fresh water, nature, nature photography, public art, recycled art, sculpture, watershed, tagged abstract man, day lily, driftwood, fossil beds, groundhog, oil sheen, photo essay, vultures on July 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The river is low and the fossil beds are exposed. I still can’t get over how this is the bedrock of the river. Bowls of water pockmark the scalloped surface as the retreating liquid pools where it can. It will take a good rain to wash the dirt away revealing details from Devonian times. Still, some people [...]
Day Lilies at the Falls of the Ohio
Posted in Art, Falls of the Ohio, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, Ohio River, Originality, art and environment, collections, creativity, ecosytem, environmental art, fresh water, nature, nature photography, public art, sculpture, watershed, tagged Art, day lily, environmental art, Falls of the Ohio, gardening, genetic art, George Gessert, lilies on July 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
For many years I have admired the gardening efforts by the staff and park volunteers to beautify the area around the Interpretive Center. I don’t know if these fine folks get the credit they deserve, but I thought I could devote a post to sing their praises and say thank you. I would be remiss [...]
Figure with Pink Ribbon
Posted in Absurd, Art, Falls of the Ohio, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, Ohio River, Originality, Styrofoam, art and environment, creativity, ecosytem, environmental art, fresh water, nature, nature photography, public art, recycled art, sculpture, watershed, tagged breast cancer, Falls of the Ohio, morning glory, pink ribbon, recycled art, site specific art, Styrofoam, trail marker on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After my adventure with the Giant Blue Ant (previous post), I went back to my studio spot and created this figure. I recently found this thick pink ribbon form and attached it to the piece. It looks like something intended to create awareness of breast cancer and so I wanted to place him where he [...]
Styro Microbird and Studio
Posted in Absurd, Art, Falls of the Ohio, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, Ohio River, Styrofoam, art and environment, creativity, ecosytem, environmental art, fresh water, nature, nature photography, public art, recycled art, sculpture, watershed, tagged art studio, bird, drawing, Styrofoam, Viceroy butterfly, wild flower on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The hard hot days of summer are just around the corner, but for now the living is easy. This time last year the water level at the Falls was low enough that you could safely wade across the river to explore the Kentucky fossil beds. For now, I will have to be patient and wait for [...]
