Drowsy
I feel the need to ramble as I sit here in my pjs on my computer when I ought to be sleeping. A bit of light code-releasing has made me too wired to lay down just yet, but my eyes have had enough of laptop screens. Still, it was exciting for me to play around with GIMP - something I thought I had to leave behind me the day I was handed a windows laptop. So - hurray for gimp!
In celebration of this I dug around for some images to play with, and remembered one of my favorite photographers, Andy Goldsworthy, who I meant to post about ages ago. My father has a book of his, and it's one that I will definitely be getting for myself should I ever be living away from easy access to the current copy. His work is so amazing to me - so much effort into creating something so temporary. He works for hours arranging sticks, leaves, ice, rocks - whatever is at hand - into something that looks truly incredible. But ice melts, wind knocks the leaves off course, fish eat the berries arranged on the water surface - all the problems that come from trying to create art with nature out in nature's world. I think it fights against that side of people that wants to obsessively control everything, to only make something that will last for centuries. His work shows the beauty and complexity in common things, and also invites people to enjoy a more child-like wonder at the world.
"I enjoy the freedom of just using my hands and "found" tools - a sharp stone, the quill of a feather, thorns. I take the opportunities each day offers: if it is snowing, I work with snow, at leaf-fall it will be with leaves; a blown-over tree becomes a source of twigs and branches. I stop at a place or pick up a material because I feel that there is something to be discovered. Here is where I can learn."
In celebration of this I dug around for some images to play with, and remembered one of my favorite photographers, Andy Goldsworthy, who I meant to post about ages ago. My father has a book of his, and it's one that I will definitely be getting for myself should I ever be living away from easy access to the current copy. His work is so amazing to me - so much effort into creating something so temporary. He works for hours arranging sticks, leaves, ice, rocks - whatever is at hand - into something that looks truly incredible. But ice melts, wind knocks the leaves off course, fish eat the berries arranged on the water surface - all the problems that come from trying to create art with nature out in nature's world. I think it fights against that side of people that wants to obsessively control everything, to only make something that will last for centuries. His work shows the beauty and complexity in common things, and also invites people to enjoy a more child-like wonder at the world.
"I enjoy the freedom of just using my hands and "found" tools - a sharp stone, the quill of a feather, thorns. I take the opportunities each day offers: if it is snowing, I work with snow, at leaf-fall it will be with leaves; a blown-over tree becomes a source of twigs and branches. I stop at a place or pick up a material because I feel that there is something to be discovered. Here is where I can learn."
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