Explorar y Crear

Use this blog as part of your attempts to start making sense of your experiences in Ecuador. Where are the experiences leading you? What has challenged your way of thinking? Again, use this time to pose questions to the group. How are your ideas for doing art based on your experiences beginning to form? What questions are beginning to surface regarding culture, teaching, learning, art..? Perhaps a story from the trip will help begin to frame your thinking. Tell us a story – and ‘telling’ is not necessarily only done by writing. And, if possible, relate your posts to specific readings, events, and experiences.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

A World of Pure Experience





















































This blog post has been difficult to write because I do not have a clear idea of what I am going to make for the exhibition. I have the beginnings of an idea, but no real plan. As a landscape artist I was most drawn to the strange terrain of the Galapagos Islands. I took the majority of my photos on the small island we visited on one of our day trips. I love these pictures, but the quality is not good enough for gallery display.


As a landscape artist I have always felt frustrated by the flatness of the 2D surfaces I have favored in the past. I want the viewer to be surrounded by the landscape, not just stand in front of it. I want to create an installation that relies on color and light to give an impression of the Galapagos Island in the photos above. I envision the structure surrounding the viewer, and viewers will be encouraged to sit in the installation and meditate on the colors and light.


For inspiration I will research the work of James Turrell and Robert Irwin. They both work with color, installation and projection.



If you know of other artists I should look at or are an expert with projectors or installations please give me advice. Thanks!


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