Landscape Action #1: Horizon Line

This sequence of video images is from a performance at Gaviota Beach near Santa Barbara, CA. This piece, Horizon Line was the first in my ongoing Landscape Action series and was published as stills in the literary arts magazine, Trepan.

The work is an allegorical play between ground and sky where the visual effect of the horizon line is transformed into a tangible object, a rope.

Found Landscapes

Found Landscape #3: Stone with rippling water
plywood, oil paint, stone, wax
2001
2' x 4'

Found Landscape #4: Sun and horizon line
plywood, oil paint, pencil, wax
2001
2' x 4'

These pieces are from the series Found Landscapes in which I chose plywood panels (from the hardware store) with woodgrain patterns suggestive of landscape features. I brought the features out by staining the panels with oil paint.

In the first piece, I collaged a smooth stone in the center of a concentric ripple pattern and then accentuated the pattern by staining with blue paint. In the second, I used yellow paint to stain over a 1/4 circle shape in the upper left corner. Then I outlined the shape and drew sun rays with pencil to suggest a child-like symbol for the sun.