My Earth Art Project

The upside-down tree
According to African legend, the Baobab wanted to become the most beautiful tree of all. When it realized that this was not possible, it put its head into the ground, so only the roots pointed heavenward. Another legend holds that when the Baobab was planted by God, it kept walking, so God pulled it up and replanted it upside down to stop it moving.

Goldworthy is a land artist

In July of 1956 Goldworthy was born in Scotland. He is a sculpter, photographer, and land artist. When he was 13 he began laboring on a farm. As he worked he saw art everywhere around him and got ideas. This is a photograph of a tree with a spiral of ice going around the trunk. To do this he actually took segments of ice and put them together. Just water and ice, no glue. All the natural materials he used include leaves, ice, rocks, flowers, and mud. He sometimes uses pins to put leaves together to make the snake that was swimming down the river and pinned twigs together to form an unusual spider web. He compared his work to picking potatos becuase the labor of his work is repetitive. You can learn about him in the documentary "Rivers and Tides" 2001 by Thomas Riedilsheimer. When looking at his portfolio I looked at alot of arches he made. Arches are used throughout early history because of there great strength and beauty. Many were constructed without cement because the stones lock them self in place. He is a very talented rock balancer. He made large pinecones out of stacks of sheet rock. His work has gone all the way out to the North Pole. There he made more of those arches and rings from blocks of ice. He made a giant's head in a garden out of mud and plants. He chooses very vibrant autumn color leaves to arrange in circles and displays feathers in a very elegant designs. When he puts several of those arches close together they remind me of the slinky toy. He was definity an outdoors man who really appreciated the beauty of nature. And most of his materials did'nt cost anything.  

Two great dresses by the designers of Alexander Mcqueen worn by Kate

James Turrell

James Turrell is an earth/land artist born in 1943 in Pasadena California. At the age of 16 he became a pilot licensed and flew supplies to miners.He has also built small planes. He has taken many photographs from the air of the Arizona desert. He is a perceptual phycologist who studies different dimensions. He has spent the last 30 years of his life building an observatory. The observatory is inside of Roden Crater. It is located in the Arizona desert in Flagstaff where many other unactive volcanos reside. He had to live in a house near the crater for two years. It is very desolate and the roads are dirt. He has spent millions of dollars to shape the crater. There are tunnels entering the base of the crater that are layed out like finely tuned optical instruments. At the end of the tunnel is a key hole of light and then the sky leading to the inside of the crater. The construction crew has shaped the bowl of the crater perfectly smooth and round. He is creating a temple of light. His light installations are in Germany and Sweden. The material he works with is the light. He has an incredible skill of capturing the light and confusing the eye so that one does'nt know if he is in the light or outside of the light. The light creates a misty feel and plays on the surfaces. He can make something flat into something 3-D with the light. In 2003 Henry Art Gallery installed a permanent Sky Space installation by Turrell. Over 50 homes have these sky spaces for meditatian. The rooms are closed with a hole in the cieling to see the heavens. The light changes color inside these domes and fools the eye. Turrell says that he feeds on the light because it is vital to our bodies to produce vitamin D. 

Stelarc

Stelarc is a performance artist. He was born on an Australlian island called Cyprus. Stelarc believes that the body is obsolete. It has no strategy or personality. It is only a sculpture to redesign. It is like architecture in a space. The body is not an object of desire but is to preserve, transfuse, sustain during comas, and do stem cell research on. He does not really act but he feels pain and demonstrates technology. In art school he realized that he was a terrible painter. Stelarc has put hooks in his flesh and suspended himself 25 times. He has suspended himself inside, outside, from trees, above streets and buildings. He has a third robotic arm which he performs with. It operates through body movement and a computer. He has a six legged walking machine that he rides on top of and works the controls. In 1993 he did a stomach sculpture by swallowing a camera and taking pictures. He has a third ear that is implanted and developing on his arm. He would like to implant a mic into it and attach a bluetooth that is transmitted to the internet to hear with his ear. His future plans are to create robots the size of specks that can be swallowed. these tiny robots will assist the body in fighting bacteria and disease and probably won't be felt by the body. Some of his designs are being used by NASA.

Donatella Versace

Donatella Versace is an itallian fashion designer. Her brother Gianni Versace is the founder of the versace name. She is a 52 year old platnium blonde with very long hair. Her skin is very golden tan because she loves the sun. She has two children. On July 15 1997 Gianni versace was murdered. Donatella became the owner of 20% of the stock market and Vice-President of the Versace brand clothing. Her brother Santo became 30% owner and Donatella's daughter Allegra owns 50% of the market. She made a cameo appearrance in the films "Zoolander" and "The Devil Wears Prada". Donatella only uses and is the first to put well known public celebritys in her fashion shows. Donatella chose to place some of her good friends,Jennifer Lopez, Madonna, Christina Aguillara, Beyonce, and Demi Moore on the A-list. She became really popular when she designed the famous Versace Green Dress,  known as the Jungle-Dress which was worn by Jennifer Lopez at the Grammys in 2000. The dress looks merely like a swimsuit cover-up or a robe. The versace perfume Blonde was named for her by her brother Gianna. Many of her her clothes are very revealing while others are stricter with alot of buckles and large buttons. The divas are always eye-catching show stoppers when wearing Versace clothes. The stars are doing many of their performances and walking the red carpet in her styles. 

alexander mcqueen shoes and bags

Alexander Mcqueen

Alexander McQueen was born on March 17, 1967.Mcqueen was openly gay and called himself the pink sheep of the family. At age 16 he decided to pursue a career in fashion design, learning tailoring on Savile Row and pattern making from costumiers Angels and Bermans. He showed his degree collection fresh out of the Central Saint Martins Masters program in 1994, which was bought  by the fashion editor Isabella Blow of Tatler, a British fashion magazine. His winter show of runway fashion is very over the top even for Hollywood. His shoes are a glamorous lace-up combat boot with a high wedge and wavey design on the back. The label is known for its dramatic, gorgeously, razor cut, constructed pieces, combining elements of British tailoring with French couture. Signature looks included billowy dresses cut in hourglass silhouettes, frock coats paired with skinny pants, sharp, angular suiting, feathery boas and zippers, and darkly romantic gowns covered in intricate embroidery and lace. Gucci Group bought 51 percent of Mcqueens label in 2000. In 2004, McQueen designed his first menswear collection and was named British Menswear Designer of the Year by the British Fashion Council. He won four awards for British designer of the year. He made suits for Prince Charles. The brand introduced fragrances in 2003 and 2005 (Kingdom and MyQueen) and in January 2006 launched McQ, a more affordable, denim-based ready-to-wear line including menswear, womenswear, and accessories. McQueen flagships stores are in London, New York, Milan, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas, and franchised stores are in Istanbul and Moscow. Tragically, McQueen was found dead in his London apartment in February 2010. The cause of death was suicide. He hung himself in a wardrobe. His mother Joyce died just several days before and his friend Isabella Blow, who launched his fashion career died 3 threes earlier. The editor of Vogue said he knew no bounds and conjueered up collection after collection of extraordinary things. He was said to be married to film-maker George Forsyth in 2000 on a yacht owned by the prince of Gambia in Ibiza. Close friend Kate Moss was a bridesmaid. But then in an interview said he was dating a porn star. His fashion is displayed in a NYC art museum for the world to marvel and always remember the fashion icon.

Maya Lin

In 1981 at the age of 21 Lin, an undergraduate, won a public design  competittion for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The memorial is in Washington D.C. and honors the U.S. armed forces who fought and died in the Vietnam war. The memorial is 246 feet and 9 inches long. It is "V" shaped and sunk into the earth to symbolize the the gravity of the deaths. She also designed the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. She is known well for her architecture and lanscapes. She also loves art and could'nt choose between the two. In 2009 she did a series of three installations called "Wave Fields". The first field was done in Michigan on 11 acres. She studied wave patterns and sculpted them from the earth and planted grass over them. You can walk across them and hide in between the waves. Her work was all about the patterns of the earth. It is never flat or straight. It always bends and shifts. She has made these maps of the continents out of cardboard. The edges are cut at different hieghts to show mountains, valleys, and rock formations.

Lauren Bon

I keep thinking how is a cornfeild a work of art? I call it agriculture. Maybe its the corn itself or maybe its the community putting their thoughts and ideas together to create something out of this public park space that looks like nothing. Not a Cornfeild caused quite a stir in the art community. Lauren's idea in 2005 was to plant a million kernals of corn on a brown 32 acre lot. It would be irrigated by the LA river. It would run for one corn cycle. At the Ace Gallery of Los Angelos she put on another exhibit in which she used 33000 lbs. of the kernals from the corn feild and called it "Bees and meat".10,000 live bees, 90 miles of irragation stripping, 9 foot corn stalks and areal dried lamb carcus were just a few things Lauren used in her exhibit. She carved a maiden out of bees wax and made a chandolier from jars of honey.