This is one of my attempts to create a similar image to Andy Goldsworthy, the bright colours and flower like shape has been inspired by his pieces. I used several flowers and berries I found on the floor to make my overall design and left it to deteriorate in nature as Goldsworthy does with many of his works.
My Attempt of creating the hanging tree
Andy Goldsworthy, born 26 July 1956 is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist producing site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. He lives and works in Scotland. The materials used in Andy Goldsworthy's art often include brightly coloured flowers, icicles, leaves, mud, pinecones, snow, stone, twigs, and thorns. He seems to believe nature is harsh, brutal, disturbing and transient as nature doesnt last forever.
Hanging tree
Hanging Trees, reveals the layered histories of the land, shelter and marker of farming activity. When developing his ideas for Hanging Trees, Goldsworthy intended that the works would ‘be about those things we do not see, that demand a physical engagement of the land and which are often missed by those who choose to see the landscape from a fixed point.' Goldsworthy chose Oxley Bank as the site for Hanging Trees because it is the dividing boundary between two separate areas of agricultural land, also he has suggested that, ‘the tension between tree and wall is evocative of the historical tension between a forested landscape and one which is farmed. A field, cleared of trees, is the site of a battle that has occurred between a farmer and the land’. Hanging Trees shows complex relationship between wood and stone that has been a main part to Goldsworthy’s work.