Andy Goldsworthy Shrine

For some reason I totally forgot how obsessed I am with Andy Goldsworthy's work. I was first introduced to his artwork last year in my art intro class and I loved it from the start. Maybe it's because his artwork is so complex and peaceful but there is something about how I can imagine him meticulously creating each piece that I absolutely love. Also I think that it's cool that he only takes pictures of his work and then leaves it in nature!

He is obsessed with circular patterns with holes. But it totally works! Each piece always bring you back to the center where there are no colors and no objects. 

       

This was the very first Andy Goldsworthy picture I ever saw "Japanes Maple Leaves"

  

Then he also has these other works that I think are focused on the concept of lines. It makes me wonder how he got these things to stay like that!

       

 

  This is the second picture I saw of his and I could totally see him just shaping this around the tree with his hands even though it was super cold!

He also has balls! (haha)

   (wouldn't want to get too close to this one!) 

He  works with reeds, rocks, and leaves too!

      

EGGS!

    

Arches!

 

Here is his official website!I will definitely be creeping on him in my spare time...when I'm not writing essays. :P

Stop! It's toilet time

Like any other college student I hate writing essays. Recently though we were assigned in class  to write a short paper on appropriation and kitsch much like what we  had to blog about. Anyways, although I found some really neat stuff to blog about already, I found even more cool stuff!!!!

Toilet Art

Okay so one of the main guys that started appropriation art was this guy named Marcel and he basically took a urinal off a wall and laid it horizontally and called it art. Well I found some more cool toilet-y things that are kind of a response to it. 

This is a huge toilet waterfall!!! Isn't that crazy? They did this exhibition somewhere in China and the installed each toilet individually and then they hooked up water to it and let the magic flow-literally. 

They also did one for kitchen appliances/sinks.

And they also did one for jugs. 

I think the jug one is my favorite even though the other two are really interesting as well. Check out my link at the top of this post to go to the website with all the different pictures of the different walls. It even shows the installation progress!

Here is another type of toilet related thing I found while google-ing.

Toilet paper roll art!

Weird huh? 

This picture reminds me of the artist that uses nails and yarn to create her artwork on walls. 

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I don't really consider this picture art cause I'm not really sure what is going on here, but I think the concept is interesting to take toilet paper (which we probably/should use everyday) to say something about the way we live.