Eartworks: An Exploration of Nature

and Photography
 Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy is a British

sculptor, photographer and
environmentalist living in
Scotland who produces site
specific sculpture and land art.
His art involves the use of
natural and found objects. He
creates both temporary and
permanent sculptures use the
character of their environment.

Rowan Leaves, 1987.

 Andy Goldsworthy

Pebbles Around a Hole, 1987.

Andy Goldsworthy

Dandelikons, 1987.
 Nils Udo

The Nest, 1978.

Earth, stones, birch
branches, grass,
Lneburg Heath,
Germany.

Nils-Udo is a German artist who started by painting and

representing landscapes before becoming fully engaged in sculpting
and building massive earthworks. He uses found berries, leaves,
sticks, the movement of water, the growth of plants and anything
else in his path to play with.
 Nils Udo

Summer in the Park, 1999. Earth, water, weidenrute, blades of grass, bird
berries and privet berries. Aachen, Germany.
 Nils Udo

Untitled, 1990. Brookbed, Bindweed Blossoms, Ile de la Runion, Indian

Ocean.
 Maya Lin

May Lin is a Chinese American

architect and sculptor. She is
well known for the Vietnam
Veterans Mememorial in
Washington, DC.

My dream, my hope for the future
is that we evolve into beings that
care about the far distant future.
That we evolve to care not just
about our own species, but also
about the other living creatures
With which we share this planet.
That will be the ultimate definition
Systematic Landscape, 2006. of selflessness.
 Maya Lin

Storm King Wavefield, 2007-2008

 Maya Lin

Wavefields, Ann Arbor, MI.

Gloria Lamson

Gloria Lamson's art is, in her words "a

Vehicle for exploration". She incorporates
fire, water, earth, chalk, survey tape, twine,
flour and other materials to create
temporary forms in the landscape. Many of
her photographs are the result of
repeated interactions with a site and
Involve a series of images over time marking
the disintegration or alteration of a piece
through natural forces. Waves wash forms
off a beach and rearrange a kelp circle.

Floating Stones on Broken Ice,

2000. Wyoming.
 Gloria Lamson

Mussel shells / Incoming Tide,

1997. AK,
Gloria Lamson

Thrown and Dropped Icicles in

Snow, 1999.Wyoming.

 Diana Thompson
Being Here, 2008. Local
shells. Photo by Karolle Wall.
Canadian born artist Diana Thompson poses
questions in her Artist Statement:
Is it possible to do no harm? Is it possible to
consider every single word, to make every
touch matter?
If something lasts only briefly, can it still be
full of meaning?
How do we dissolve the idea of other?
Is living in peace possible?
How can kindness become the base of our
lives?
These are some of the questions I ask
myself, not just in my studio, but every
moment of my life. I want the world to revolve
around compassion, and I want to know if it
can be done.
 Diana Thompson

Being Here, 2008. Local

shells. Photo by Karolle Wall.
 Diana Thompson

Gesture, 2003. Local shells.

Strijdom van der Merwe

Strijdom van der Merwe uses materials he

finds on site. Based in South Africa, his
sculptural forms take shape in relation to the
landscape. It is a process of working with the
natural world, using sand, water, wood and
rocks.

He shapes these elements into
geometrical forms that participate with their
environment, continually changing until their
final inevitable destruction.

Strijdom van der Merwe
Strijdom van der Merwe
Walter Mason- German Artist

The red leave segments are stuck

to the bottom of the yellow linden
leaves with spittle. The whole
thing took less than half an hour,
and I remember that I made it
while I was taking my daughter for
a walk in the pram, so she was
sleeping next to me while I made
it. Then I pushed her about in the
pram for another 30 minutes or
so, and when I came back, the
leaves were still there.




Scarlet Oak Zigzag, 2005.
Walter Mason- German Artist

Dewdrop Meander, 2007.

Walter Mason- German Artist

Elm Leaf Meander, 2007.

 Red Earth- Outcrop Project

Outcrop, August- September 2000. A series of 30' high

sculptures on the South Downs Way near Ditchling Beacon,
England.
 Resources
Gloria Lamson.
http://greenmuseum.org/content/work_index/
work_id-10__artist_id-4.html

Nils Udo. http://greenmuseum.org/content/artist_index/artist_id-36.html

http://www.strijdom.co.za/

Red Earth- Outcrop Project.

http://greenmuseum.org/content/artist_index/artist_id-146.html

Diana Thompson. http://www.dianathompson.net/Being_Here/point.html

Walter Mason. http://www.flickr.com/photos/meandermind/sets/1520378/

Maya Lin. http://hankblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/05kino2_650.jpg

http://www.courier-journal.com/blogs/vel21/2008/04/maya-lin-at-
kentucky-center.html
 Resources
Frank Gehry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Goldsworthy