Artist #16

Maya Lin
Peace Chapel

The Peace Chapel is an environmental landscape site designed by Maya Lin. It is a 14-acre site near Junita College campus. Designed and constructed in 1988-1989, the peace chapel consists of two sites. The larger site is defined by a 40-foot circle of rough granite stones that line a shallow well at top of a hill. This peace seems exactly what the title of the piece it looks extremely peaceful. A place to be yourself, a place to just sit and relax and think. You can see in the picture Maya Lin is sitting in the circle of the Peace Chapel she is sitting in an indian style seating position. She looks peaceful and calm.

Happening Art Piece

This is my Art project for module 4. It is a tribute to Alan Kaprows Fluids. I decided to do a miniature version of Fluids because after watching video within Glenn's class it inspired me in more ways than one. At first watching the video was boring and had me wondering what's the point of watching ice melt? But as Glenn kept talking about fluids it came to me that it's not just the ice melting it's how it's melting. It came to me as a metaphor for life. We start as an ice cube in life but slowly melt away, an ice cube is fairly strong in structure but slowly melts making itself vulnerable to breaking. As teenagers are bones are strong and healthy but as we get older we become more and more vulnerable to breaking bones. Setting up the ice was fairly hard as it wasn't complete blocks but once I got some stack most stayed up. As it continued to melt the ice took a form of it's own some connecting with the ice that was stacked upon it. It took the ice over 5 hours to melt but was well worth the wait.

Artist #15

Robert Smithson
Spiral Jetty

Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson is my 15th artist research piece. The Spiral Jetty is land art that was created in Utah and made entirely of mud, salt crystals, basalt rocks, earth, and water. It took six days to construct and is walkable as in you can walk on it, when it is in sight. Water does rise and lower annually. In 2008 the Spiral Jetty was in trouble due to oil companies wanting to drill for black gold (oil) I'm not sure if it ever came to pass but I highly doubt it. The piece is describe as being a representation of Smithsons marriage with his with Nancy Holy. He said like a spiral his marriage was going nowhere. I think it is one of those things that is important to America as a whole especially as natural art. To have it destroyed or disrupted by anything other than something natural is just horrible

Artist #14

Hussein Chalayan
Afterwords

for my 14th artist research I am using Hussein Chalayan's Afterwords dress as my inspiration. In this piece the dress serves well as a dress but also as a table. I can only imagine that the dress must A. be uncomfortably heavy and B. only used for sight. I can't anyone wearing this in day to day life. Although it is rather cool. To be a table it must be very hard to move your legs. While searching I couldn't find out what the dress was made of, made it is made of light weight material like plastic so it won't weigh so much. None the less it is a very innovative great looking dress.

Artist #13

Andy Goldsworthy
Roof

Andy Goldsworthy is my13th artist research piece. The piece that I am reviewing is Roof at first sight looks to be a room filled with rocks that are stacked in a uniform manner so that they escalate to create sort of half a circle. Most of Andy's work is not meant to be permanent art pieces due to the fact that he usually deals with earth art. This is also earth art but is handle in a totally different matter as in it is indoors. Andy used a team of workers to help sculpt the piece, it took nine weeks to build. The concept for the sculpture came from the artist's interest in the origin of Washington building stones. It is currently held at the National Gallery of Art. I personally like it. I remember tiling my bathroom and imagine this must be something like that except doing with sculpture would be to the 20th level of some sort.

FarmLab

When I first heard that there was actually a Farm in Los Angeles I shouted that it couldn't be real but low and behold it is. Farm Lab is an urban art museum made up of natural artwork created by plants. When it's founder Lauren Bon took over Farmlab she set out to save plants and life in Los Angeles.

In this picture of Another city is Possible there is no clear meaning on what it means, one can only take there own interpretation of what it means. I believe it means that another city is possible like we can create such a city that has more plant life more natural items. Los Angeles is so urban I doubt most of the civilians of Los Angeles even know of Farm Lab existence. The sign is basically saying to me that who says Los Angeles can't be like other cities that are known for their vivacious plant life. We all have the power to change it.

In this neon sign inside of Farmlab I got from this the same meaning as the first photo. We need to create more, so much we do in our daily lives is destroy plant life and other living things. We destroy trees we don't recycle. There's so many things we can do to limit our footprints on this planet while we inhabit it we take advantage of it. Not to say for every paper we use we need to plant a tree, but we need to realize the huge impact we have had on the earths existence up to this point.

Some pieces I really didn't get or really understand. I'm guess they wanted to appeal to people more. The planting in the car struck me as an odd thing to do. It just felt unnecessary, the car could of been used to make new things that the earth could use. Instead it is used as an art piece, I'm guessing its just a double edge sword when it comes to stuff like this though. I just think first off it should be about the environment and then a museum. All in all I thought Farmlab was really cool.

Artist #12

Yoko Ono
Painting to Hammer a nail 

For my twelfth artist research piece I am presenting Yoko Ono's Painting to Hammer a Nail. Yoko Ono I think more famously known for the driving force of what everyone believes ended The Beatles is also an artist. Simple in it's design the painting to hammer a nail is still a good piece. The piece is a hammer connected by chain to a woodblock that has nails throughout it. The piece showcases that why not hammer a hammer in. Funny to think because the nails are used to hold the hammer up in place on the woodblock. i'm just curious to why is it named "To Paint a hammer to a woodblock" as in where does the painting aspect occur?