[SA Chris]

I think the wings are shit too. Looks like wellington bomber surplus.

[SamT]

Gotta disagree on the wings - they are awesome. Just this huge f**kin great span that seem to defy the wind. They just look so solid. Plus I like their shape. Mind you - I like wellington bombers too - it was one of my favorite airfix kits.

The traffics always bad throught the team valley  - and its nowt to do with the AOTN.

Anyone seen Field.

[squeek]

really? I was unimpressed by the wings, the rest of the AOTN seemed quite intricate and the wings just looked like a rush job.

Didn't he make a few smaller ones before the large one?  Like the one that was recently displayed at Chatsworth?  Would he not have had time to alter the design if it was rushed?  I preferred the man that was placed on Chatsworth roof in that exhibition, can't remember the name, great effect.  I don't think it'd work quite as well on top of a run down terraced  though.

[chappers]

i went to see "another place" on saturday...and was very impressed. at low tide it was amazing to walk down the beach towards the water, each one in turn has a higher tide mark where the barnacles and weed have set up home.

i love work like this, a sculpture that is placed deliberatly into the elements because its very own weathering process is an important part of the work itself. the figures have an amazing look of solitude to them as they look out to sea.

if you are fans of this, then you may like the work in grizedale, esp andy goldsworthy "taking a wall for a walk":


ill get some pics from saturday on-line on thursday.

[vivahate]

I love the statues and it'll be sad to see them go. At the moment Liverpool is riddled with art for the biennial including cages over the lions at St Georges Hall and a mogul football pitch. Here are the photos I took at anohter place (i posted them in another thread, because I couldn't find this one )







taken with a D70s, for those who are interested

[chappers]

D50 for those who are interested.

watch out for quicksand out there word.

[Monolith]

Some fantastic pictures there vivahate.

Good shout on Goldsworthy chappers. I've seen some of his books before which are incredible. Very expensive also if I remember correctly and not too easy to obtain. Have you seen any of the ice sculptures he's done?

[Falling Down]

Some fantastic pictures there vivahate.

Good shout on Goldsworthy chappers. I've seen some of his books before which are incredible. Very expensive also if I remember correctly and not too easy to obtain. Have you seen any of the ice sculptures he's done?

Another 'hurrah' for Andy Goldsworthy...

I read some more detail recently - he developed a lot of his ideas and practices on the Lleyn, particularly at Porth Ceriad (where my ashes are being scattered according to my last will and testament), his first 'pebble towers' to be submerged by the sea were under 'Lower Homs Crag' on the beach there... it's such an inspiring place.

[Johnny Brown]

Didn't know that, despite building my own pebble towers in that exact spot. I wonder, though, if having completed them and photographed them he then retreated to a 'sporting' distance and tried to knock them over with other rocks?

Goldsworthy books are a bit over-priced but certainly not hard to obtain. All over waterstones.

[chappers]

Have you seen any of the ice sculptures he's done?

i have seen pictures of the snow ball things that he did in london village. the wall thing is the only work that i have seen "in the flesh". he did some work in morecambe bay, should have seen that when i was living up there, but i didnt.

i went to an exhibition at the natural history museum called "burning ice - art and climate change" at the beginning of the summer this year. He had done a sculpture up in the artic which was incredible, a cast of his body in the snow that he filled with water, that froze into his body shape, then he stood it upright. a few of his ice sculptures:




i wrote my dissertation at university about artists interpretations of the natural world and issues like climatic change. i really enjoyed the topic. went to germany to see some paintings by anselm keifer, and made many trips to various sculpture parks.

[SA Chris]

Good shout on Goldsworthy chappers. I've seen some of his books before which are incredible. Very expensive also if I remember correctly and not too easy to obtain. Have you seen any of the ice sculptures he's done?

I take it you know about the find books site? http://www.find-book.co.uk/books/0810938472.htm