I've given up trying to display my pictures, so I'll just tell you!!

I was looking at weavers. I loved the work of seiko kinoshita www.seikokinoshita.com
I particularly liked the small pieces strung together. They made me think of leaves fluttering in a breeze. I also liked the long pieces she suspended across a ceiling, so you can stand under them and look up. Reminded me of standing under the branches of a tree and looking up through the leaves.
I loved the work of Ulla De Larios www.ulladelarios.com
She had explored the theme 'crossings'.
I went for a walk through the forest at Slieve Gullion. (I took photos, but they wouldn't be displayed either!!) The theme of 'crossings' was in my head. The trees seemed to be reaching, stretching, trying to cross, connect. I stood under a tree and looked up through the branches. The branches and leaves felt like a barrier I wanted to cross. What is on the other side? If I look through the spaces, what can I see? How do I cross/connect/befriend?

I can't get my pictures to appear? What am I doing wrong?

hansel and gretal

Ive come up with a lot of ideas but I think I am going to go with the Hansal and Grethal theme. I am going to use the inspiration from the 'Brothers Grime' style and take my own photographs in forset parks, sweet shops and places that relate to Hansal and Gretal. I love the style of their work and the tecniques that they use to create their images. At the start I did not no what style to go with but thank you Jamie ur a legend :D. so i think I am going to stick with the hansal and Gretal theme and use the Brothers Grime style for inspiration.

Anya Gallaccio

Preserve 'Beauty' (1991-2003)
This art piece is made up of 2000 red gerbera daisies pressed against the wall by large transparent panels. It was designed to decay in the exhibition allowing the viewer to experience natures process of decay during the course of the exhibition

Because I could not stop (2000)
Organic and traditional sculptural materials are used together to create this art piece. Real apples hang off a bronze casting of an apple tree. Over the course of the exhibtion the apples will fall off the tree showing the passage of time.

Hey everyone, I am just home from holidays so this is my first blog. Some of the ideas that have been posted up so far look really interesting. The work above is from an artist (Anya Gallacio) that I have came across before and found interesting. She uses natural materials such as flowers, fruit, and grass in various pieces of her art work, often using them within more traditional sculptural materials.

Ive used her as an example as her work shows the natural cycle of growth and decay, her exhibition never stays the same and the viewer has a different experience each time they visit. I like the idea of nature and its natural cycle. The effect of decaying creates many different tectures and colours which could be adapted into art work, and i like the idea of creating a piece of art work that goes through a process and changes throughout the exhibition. I am going to investigate this area further and will post up anything else interesting I come across

These accesories show the pattern that Alexander has used on his garment and others show the materials that reflect the forrest for example the wood bracelet...

This piece is an outfit created by Alexander Mc Queen from his 2009 spring collection
his inspiration for this collection was the forrest and you can see from the striking pattern that

trees were a big influence, the pattern resembles the pattern that you can see within a tree (the grain of the tree) and you also see how the fabric loosley folds in the way that the grain with a tree folds and bends creating a loosley structured pattern... i feel that Alexander has really capture the influence of the forest and the trees...

Also above shows some accessories which carry this pattern and also reflects the forest in the materials used to make them...

Weird and Wonderful... maybe

I've noticed that most of the posts consist of some sort of Fairy Tail... or squished fairies (Colin) and i can see why, it's like the main thing you associate with the forest... witches, fairies, ghosts and goblins! they are all things which in many ways belong in the forest... Not in towns or Cities.

I didn't really want to go down the whole Fairy Tail road.. but didn't know what to do or what to post on this site...

UNTIL!! I saw Sarah Kate's post with the Urinal tied to a tree... which i though was great and very funny!! and it got me thinking about inanimate objects cloths, books, Chessboards etc and mixing them with the Natural world (The Forest)

I think that it creates a weird and unusual sort of scene... it's not something you would expect to see while your waking threw the forest, it's putting inanimate objects in places where you would not expect them to be/see them... basically lol

I think that it gives a good sort of effect, with a sense of mystery attached to it, that provokes some sort/chain of thought,

like how did it get there?

who put that there?

and its an idea that i would like to continue with...

Em... what do you all think?!?!

any thoughts/feedback on the matter would be great!! lol

Thx!!

sinister fairytales

I've been looking at different artists who have put a twist on fairytales, mostly ones which are based in the woods (which is nearly all of them) when you think about it all the good ones are, "little red ridding hood" "Hansel and Gretel" "Snow White" "Alice in wonder land" and "Rapunzel" to say the least. Reasearching these Fairy Tales I have come across two Artists that caught my intrest.

The first, the brothers grimm, two German brothers from late 1700's early 1800's who are among the best-known story tellers of fairy tales. They listened to stories from other people and wrote down what they heard puttnig sinister twists to the tales, the Ypublished a number of children's books filled with German fairy tales like Snow White, Hansel and Gretel and Rapunzel, and this was before Walt Disney put his happy ending stamp on them. Example - in the brothers Grimm's snow white, the evil stepmother is forced to dance in red-hot iron shoes until she falls down dead, something Walt Disney kinda left out. The Grimm brothers were put down for the violent edge they had to their stories, but I'm liking this more creeper style of fairy tales, I have posted a link to an article of the brothers below.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/article.html

The second artist I have been looking at is a modern artist called Lang Leav aka Akina. In the link I have given below you will see her work from the hand-crafted picture books called "Poems for Piotr" to "The Teddy Bear's Picnic", a collection of stories with a sinister twist to famous fairytale characters, artwork and stories by Lang Leav. This Woman is amazing! the pictures shown are her work, not only does she Illustrate and make hand-crafted books but she creates buttons, fashion pieces, postcards and sterling silver works of art, all with a beautiful quirky feel to them, they remind me of the books "A series of unfortunate events" by Lemony Snicket (awesome books by the way) (link below) back to Lang Leav, her work is REALLY inspiring to me, I think im going to do something based on her work........ideas?? please.

http://www.indie.com.au/art-illustration/all

If you look at any links on this page please pick the one above, her work is fantastic. just keep scrolling down on the page and you'll find her work. theres also someone else on the page who has work based in a woody area too. Kareena Zerefos', but Leav's work stood out to me more.

http://www.lemonysnicket.com/ theres a hell of a lot of writing on this page, I'm sorry.

Art in the Woods

I'm sorry - I should have given this link before - get a look at this site, it's really cool!

http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/robinson/robinson8-9-07.asp

This is my first post so I'm sorry if it looks weird or doesn't make sense! I saw this photo on www.artnet.com and it immediately made me think of Marcel Duchamp and his toilet, then when I read the little review, it does indeed speak of the guy - David Hammons as being "Duchampian". Get a look at this page about forest-related art, and see too the cool cast of Ann-Sofi Siden sqatting, having a pee in behind the trees! And see the rest of the website, there's some really cool things on it.I realise that other than the fact that the urinal is attached to a tree, it, and Duchamp's "Fountain", have no other connection to the forest. This mightn't even work so at least we can look at the pictures!

I wanted to put the pictures together! Here is Duchamp's "Fountain". Both of these - Duchamp and the associations with the guy who owns the forest in the Art Net pictures, have links to the Guggenheim. I shall put up some more photos over the next few days.