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Further Natural Calligraphy / Carving The Land / The Story Of Land Art: Wanderings #40/52a

The Coast Of England & Wales In Pictures-book-JA Steers-1960-A Year In The Country-2

I’ve mentioned before about trees and the patterns they make as being a form of natural calligraphy.

The images in The Coast Of England & Wales In Pictures by J.A. Steers from 1960 could be seen as a similar thing but rather they are patterns created by the land and tides themselves.

The Coast Of England & Wales In Pictures-book-JA Steers-1960-A Year In The Country-1 The Coast Of England & Wales In Pictures-book-JA Steers-1960-A Year In The Country-3 The Coast Of England & Wales In Pictures-book-JA Steers-1960-A Year In The Country-4

What such things put me in mind of in part, are the artworks created in the landscape that can be seen in Troublemakers: The Story Of Land Art, which is a documentary on a number of people in the 1960s onwards who literally carved, excavated and poured often huge, landscape sized work out in the desert, along the coast etc…

TROUBLEMAKERS-Double Negative-The Story Of Land Art-A Year In The Country

Spiral-jetty-from-rozel-point-Troublemakers-The Story Of Land Art-A Year In The Country

Troublemakers-The Story Of Land Art-A Year In The Country

Blimey might be an appropriate phrase about now. Installation art on a grand scale…

 

File under: Trails and Influences / Year 3 Wanderings

Intertwined wanderings around these parts:
Week #52/52: An Arboreal Collection Or Two And Hello And Goodbye…

Wanderings #15/52a: Other Views / The Patterns Beneath The Plough, The Pylons And Amongst The Edgelands #1

Wanderings #31/52a: The Shadow Of Heaven Above

Elsewhere in the ether:
Troublemakers: The Story Of Land Art at its home in the ether and the accompanying trailer.

 

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