This project was made about two months ago for my Intermediate Sculpture class. We were assigned to make a site specific installation in nature. This installation was a collaborative effort by Nick Roach, Noah Simmons, and myself. We were greatly inspired by the sculptor and land artist Andy Goldsworthy. Our site location was the sand dunes of Montana de Oro. Our intention for our piece was to create a large organic flowing form mimicking the natural flowing dunes and introduce a material unnatural to its site-specific location. We used sticks gathered from a eucalyptus forest about a 15-minute hike from the actual sand dunes. The sticks offered a somewhat uniform shape and mark to deal with in making our land installation. Inspired by other great land works such as Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty we began creating a line in the sand by placing the sticks upright in the sand one after another, creating an unraveling spiral shape. We then continued this line in a snake like pattern creating the illusion of an endless line flowing throughout the dunes. The sticks added an unnatural element to the soft rolling sand dunes creating vertical lines and shadows which would moves and stretch as the sun rose and set. More to come.
