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Hakoto | Speaking Leaf
HAKOTO | Speaking Leaf is an ambitious, interdisciplinary project that combines art, technology, and environmental awareness to shed light on the intricate relationship between nature and climate change. This initiative is designed to create an immersive aesthetic experience and inspire dialogue about environmental responsibility. At the heart of this project are unique wireless body-pack sculptures…
Plein Air in ‘Resounding Change: Sonic Art and the Environment’
Plein Air is a unique art installation that was featured in the exhibition “Resounding Change: Sonic Art and the Environment” at the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University. This exhibition was a collaboration between the WCU Fine Art Museum and School of Music and focused on the theme of…
PLEIN AIR | Southern Appalachian Forest
Friday, March 1, 2019 through Saturday, August 3, 2019 10am to 6pm T, W, TH, Sat. 12-8pm Fri.Closed Sun, Mon. Turchin Center for the Visual Arts Mayer Gallery, King Street, Boone, North Carolina 28608 Plein Air: The Breath of Trees – The Catalogue Intro Page through the pdf here: or Download it here Plein Air: Silva…
Lanolin, Can you see the forests of Scotland?
This artwork has been previously shown as a part of ‘Caledonia Futures: The Forests are Moving’ at the Tent Gallery, in Art Space and Nature (2013). It is a commentary on the relationship between landscape, trees and sheep in Scotland. The work emerges from experiences in Loch Katrine with the Native Woodlands Discussion Group. During…
TAOD GAOISDEI and AN DORCHADAS
Taod Gaoisdei and An Dorchadas (Darkness) are related artworks: one is a bitless bridle made of birch twigs and horsehair, the other one is an image of a horse with the bridle. This term ‘taod gaoisdei’ is found in Scottish folklore that talks about catching a Kelpie with a special bridle. Taod gaoisdei is a…
The Ladder in the Wood
Deep inside the Black Wood of Rannoch there is an old wooden ladder. It was left behind by a former deerstalker who worked this forest patch over thirty years ago. It was used to climb that tree to sit quietly and shoot deer. The sitting platform is long gone. Now it is almost indiscernible from…
FIADH
Fiadh is Scottish Gaelic for deer, but it also references wildness. This is an experimental and evolving sculpture first presented in Sylva Caledonia exhibition at Summerhall (2015) subsequently at Caol Ruadh Sculpture Park. It is a deer exclosure model; a fence that protects the forest from the ravages of large deer herds promoted by hunting…
Decoy
Decoy is a film about being entangled with a forest and its wild things. The images were simultaneously shot deep in a Caledonian pine forest. The full coloured image moves forward into the landscape and the black and white image draws backward through the landscape. With this work we are trying to get at the…
CO2 Edenburgh: Can Art Change the Climate?
Spirit in the Air integrate art, technology and science to explore ground level CO2 during the Edinburgh Festival. Where science uses technology to establish matters of fact, artists are working with technology leaders from the Scottish busines community to convene technology and expertise around the public perception of carbon dioxide. CO2 or as the artists prefer to call it the…
3 Rivers 2nd Nature Mandala
Goto and Collins with Noel Hefele. 3 Rivers 2nd Nature project exhibited in the Groundworks Exhibition.