Departures

I figured yesterdays post deserves some sort of explanation or description.

I’ve been looking at a lot of environmental art lately, specifically by Andy Goldsworthy, as a lot of the most recent photographs done at Bear Lake have a lot of similarities with Goldsworthy’s works. One of the only differences is that the alterations/sculptures (for what is a sandcastle but a sculpture) were not created by myself.
Thinking this very well may be the direction I want to take the Bear Lake work and perhaps what I may pursue for my thesis, I decided to go out and start practicing making my own sculptures, even if right now they are a blatant copy of what Goldsworthy is doing.

So on Saturday I got on my bike and rode up Logan Canyon, and came to spot in the river that looked as though it had potential to do something with rocks. After a few minutes there, I decided that the water was too deep and fast to do what I wanted to do, and decided to wrap some rocks in leaves. I made a star pattern on one rock from seven leaves.

After the star, I wanted to move on to something bigger, and completely cover a rock in the middle of the river. So set out covering a rock with a real lovely eroded cavity, and got about 1/3 of the rock covered when I went to check my camera and the photographs, when I lost my balane in the current of the river and fell, and in catching my fall, my left hand landed on a very sharp rock which cut my index finger pretty badly. My hands were so cold and numb from having them submerged for an hour and a half that there was almost no blood or pain. After examining the cut I admitted that it would be best to halt work and come back home and get the cut dressed. It’s bad enough that I fear working in water for at least another three to four days. So the last frame in the video clip was seconds before the injury occurred. Overall it was a good, educational experience that taught me many things about leaves, rocks, and flowing water.