Final Project

I chose to do my piece at Belle Isle, due to needing a water source and because I've never been there before. It was fun to become familiar with a new place. Anyway, there was some interesting Earth Art there already. I want to share a couple pictures here before getting around to my own work.

This is an outline of some sort (perhaps for a building), made with long logs of wood and surrounded by stones.

An old lantern, hanging off a log of wood (which was probably cut). Some type of wire is wrapped around the log.

Now my project!

"Hang up the Suit"
Earth Art Piece

Originally, when thinking of ideas for this project, I wanted to do something in the water. I'm a swimmer and water - and interacting with it - is an important concept to me. Unfortunately, it is a little chilly outside these days (thanks to winter being just around the corner). So, instead, I decided to do a piece about not swimming (in December, anyway). I'll explain my reasoning behind each picture as I put them up. Enjoy!

I decided to start with the suit in the water. I couldn't be swimming, but my suit could do it for me. I really like how the colors of the suit look in this picture. The sunlight hitting the suit while it's underwater makes everything so vivid.

In this shot, it looks as though the suit is getting out of the water (because it's much too cold). The suit is supposed to represent the idea of 'swimming'. I hope that comes across in these pictures.

Now the suit is being hung up to dry. It's no longer needed because you can't swim in this type of weather. It's not of any use until the warmer weather sets in again in the spring.

In this next shot, I used a different color suit because I think the black works better here. I found a little pond that was frozen over with ice. You can't swim in it, thus the suit is only laying on the ice, and not in the water.

I thought this rock could get better use out of my cap and goggles than I could. I really was curious to see how it would look, rather than wanting to add it to my piece. But, I think it came out pretty well!

These goggles are no longer of any use, so they've sunk to the bottom and are now collecting dirt. You can see the rocks beginning to pile up around them.

Thus ends my swimming piece. But, I have another couple pictures to put on here.

I found these huge mushrooms (I think that's what they are...) growing on this fallen tree. They looked like bowls to me, so I put some fruit I found and a bunch of leaves into the 'bowl' and added some objects of my own (the cup, knife, fork and spoon). Now it really looks like a meal! This isn't part of my 'Hang up the Suit' piece, but I wanted to share it anyway.