Over the reading period, I took a trip to Highcliff State Park and gathered a very large number of sticks, which are now in the trunk of my car (picture not included for lack of foresight since my car is in the Banta Bowl). I've also purchased 10 of these cinder blocks from Home Depot, so now I only need some paint to have all of my materials. I'm going to build picture frames out of these sticks and affix them among the trees (as seen below in red). Then I will build a sculpture with the cinder block where I've indicated the gray square in the photo. I'm not quite sure what this is going to look like, but I've put a photo of what I'm thinking along the lines of below. As I already mentioned in my proposal, the goal of my work will be to bring people's attention back to nature. The installation artist Olafur Eliasson says that "[Nature is] something we more frequently experience through mediation rather than firsthand" (Bishop 77), and I want to ultimately bring attention to that, even if it will still be mediated, but just mediated in a different way.
Works Cited
Bishop, Claire. Installation Art: A Critical History. London: Tate Publishing, 2005.
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