Flora Fauna Furniture – my foraging art of salvage
Stepping outside, in tall boots or sandals, with a curious mind, wearing gloves and sunscreen, I begin.
In the fields near our home, I came across an office chair. It was visible in the tree line off a field, apparently a dump site. Plenty of glass, cans, general household trash. I’ve been trekking there through all seasons, fascinated by the moss and seedlings determined to inhabit, reclaim, transform the chair.
Looking for ways to work, create within the natural world, I’m inspired by decades of work by Andy Goldsworthy, Patrick Dougherty’s Stickworks, Maya Lin’s installations and monuments, Christo’s wrappings, and the Spiral Jetty guy (must look up his name again. did that, Robert Smithson)
We stay at a lodge on a remote island on the Chesapeake Bay in November, first time in Nov 2017. I’ve been fascinated by the littoral beach, shifts and erosion of the coast line and the trash and tangled lines that wash in with the tide. Choosing to replicate, interpret what I encounter, I create installations, embracing the temporary, photographing the work, then allowing nature to reclaim it. Earth Art. Mother nature, she rocks.
Sometimes when the poison ivy, greenbriar and bugs aren’t fierce, I tinker with rusted metal, salvage some choice iron, for scrap or future use. I do love discovery aspect and try not to descriminate with found objects.
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