Week One: Andy Goldsworthy

This week we highlighted the work of Scottish artist Andy Goldsworthy.  Perhaps more than any other artist he helped expand my idea of what art could be.  We went to an old cabin in Wilder Ranch State Park and watched the documentary about his life and work:

Rivers and Tides 

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YneW7xksBHY).

We then went to the Bonny Doon Ecological Reserve to make art.  Armed with inspiration, and with no more instructions than the hint to look for what is in abundance around you, we wandered off into the forest.  Simultaneously everyone stopped and started working on projects that evolved as they went.  By the end we had radically transformed a section of the trail.  A number of students commented that they wish they could hide in the bushes and see the reactions of hikers passing our art.  I am confident that anyone who passed that way after us would be forced to slow down, wonder, and reflect.


Please upload any pictures you have of that day (Title posts: "Week One: Pictures from Your Name"), and remember to bring a camera (or phone!) next week...