Comments for art out and about http://petemclean.wordpress.com Pete McLean's weblog Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:31:42 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on About by VJ http://petemclean.wordpress.com/about/#comment-103 VJ Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:31:42 +0000 #comment-103 Your new look weblog is really impressive. Your new look weblog is really impressive.

]]> Comment on Mushroom Prints by Pete McLean http://petemclean.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/mushroom-prints/#comment-102 Pete McLean Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:18:16 +0000 http://petemclean.wordpress.com/?p=25#comment-102 Hi Kendra I always use mushrooms that I find outside, though I assume shop bought mushrooms will work just fine if you want to try it out. Hi Kendra

I always use mushrooms that I find outside, though I assume shop bought mushrooms will work just fine if you want to try it out.

]]> Comment on found art by Pete McLean http://petemclean.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/found-art/#comment-101 Pete McLean Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:15:18 +0000 http://petemclean.wordpress.com/?p=294#comment-101 Hi Kendra Thanks for all your comments. I should try and clarify a little what I mean't by my "found art" tag. It wasn't really meant as a serrious deffinition of a type of art to rival terms like earth art or land art, and certainly some of what I labled as found art could fit into these terms. (And I am most certainly aware of the history of land art like Robert Smithson et. al.). What I was interested in when I was posting things I labled found art was the ambiguous boundary between what is art and what isn't. Firstly it was quite literally things I found, stuff I stumbled accross on walks etc. Most of this stuff was not really made as art (or at least I don't think so?) and yet it looks a lot like land art in some respects. Some of it WAS being conciously creative, like the pebble arrangements in the first post, but others were for another purpose alltogether, like the bike ramps crafted from red soil hidden in overgrown parkland. The creators made it as a place to do jumps on their bikes, but I looked at it (and presented it on this blog) with land art as my reference. I guess I was reflecting on the fact that lots of people make creative things and leave them in public spaces as trace of their prescence, and I kind of wonder who they are. Much as I hope others react when they discover the land art that I leave lying about from time to time. Another thing I should perhaps clarify. When I make 'land art', I do photograph it and present some of it here. These photograghs are not, however, the art. The art is the act of intervening visually in the world, the stuff I leave lying on the ground - ussually disturbed by wind or rain or walkers fairly quickly. The photographs are but a record of that event, lthough I do try to make them as attractive as I can. I don't have any training in photography though and don't think of myself as a photographic artist, though I take a lot of snaps. cheers pete Hi Kendra
Thanks for all your comments. I should try and clarify a little what I mean’t by my “found art” tag. It wasn’t really meant as a serrious deffinition of a type of art to rival terms like earth art or land art, and certainly some of what I labled as found art could fit into these terms. (And I am most certainly aware of the history of land art like Robert Smithson et. al.). What I was interested in when I was posting things I labled found art was the ambiguous boundary between what is art and what isn’t. Firstly it was quite literally things I found, stuff I stumbled accross on walks etc. Most of this stuff was not really made as art (or at least I don’t think so?) and yet it looks a lot like land art in some respects. Some of it WAS being conciously creative, like the pebble arrangements in the first post, but others were for another purpose alltogether, like the bike ramps crafted from red soil hidden in overgrown parkland. The creators made it as a place to do jumps on their bikes, but I looked at it (and presented it on this blog) with land art as my reference. I guess I was reflecting on the fact that lots of people make creative things and leave them in public spaces as trace of their prescence, and I kind of wonder who they are. Much as I hope others react when they discover the land art that I leave lying about from time to time.

Another thing I should perhaps clarify. When I make ‘land art’, I do photograph it and present some of it here. These photograghs are not, however, the art. The art is the act of intervening visually in the world, the stuff I leave lying on the ground – ussually disturbed by wind or rain or walkers fairly quickly. The photographs are but a record of that event, lthough I do try to make them as attractive as I can. I don’t have any training in photography though and don’t think of myself as a photographic artist, though I take a lot of snaps.

cheers
pete

]]> Comment on Mushroom Prints by kendrajk http://petemclean.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/mushroom-prints/#comment-100 kendrajk Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:18:10 +0000 http://petemclean.wordpress.com/?p=25#comment-100 What an awesome idea! I love easy and nature-y art things like this. I will have to try it :) Do you use mushrooms found outside or do mushrooms bought at a store? What an awesome idea! I love easy and nature-y art things like this. I will have to try it :)

Do you use mushrooms found outside or do mushrooms bought at a store?

]]> Comment on found art by kendrajk http://petemclean.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/found-art/#comment-99 kendrajk Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:13:17 +0000 http://petemclean.wordpress.com/?p=294#comment-99 First, I really like your blog, just stumbled upon it and still browsing through it :) I like found art, although the type of 'found art' in these photos and the others you've posted, I've at least usually heard it refer to as Earth Art(earth works) or Land Art, don't think I've heard it called found art before. I generally use the term found art when doing a mixed media thing on paper and adding "found objects and art" onto the page. But its cool and works in this instance too! I think earth art / found art is amazing and I actually did a project on it for school once. Here are some of the photos that I took for my own Found Art, it was a bit more planned than those photos there http://darkalaria69.deviantart.com/gallery/#Earthworks feel free to take a look for inspiration or whatever :) Also, here's another earth artists that I found on Flickr that does amazing work on the earth and then creates great photographs to document them http://www.flickr.com/photos/escher1/ One piece of earth art that I love and was pretty famous was the Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson http://www.spiraljetty.org/ and i think the most famous was the Surrounded Islands by Christo and Jeanne-Claude http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/si.shtml Not sure if you knew about any of those or not but I love to share :) Thanks for reading my ramblings if you did lol First, I really like your blog, just stumbled upon it and still browsing through it :)
I like found art, although the type of ‘found art’ in these photos and the others you’ve posted, I’ve at least usually heard it refer to as Earth Art(earth works) or Land Art, don’t think I’ve heard it called found art before. I generally use the term found art when doing a mixed media thing on paper and adding “found objects and art” onto the page. But its cool and works in this instance too!

I think earth art / found art is amazing and I actually did a project on it for school once. Here are some of the photos that I took for my own Found Art, it was a bit more planned than those photos there http://darkalaria69.deviantart.com/gallery/#Earthworks feel free to take a look for inspiration or whatever :)

Also, here’s another earth artists that I found on Flickr that does amazing work on the earth and then creates great photographs to document them http://www.flickr.com/photos/escher1/

One piece of earth art that I love and was pretty famous was the Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson http://www.spiraljetty.org/
and i think the most famous was the Surrounded Islands by Christo and Jeanne-Claude http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/si.shtml

Not sure if you knew about any of those or not but I love to share :) Thanks for reading my ramblings if you did lol

]]> Comment on found art on a grand scale by artistatexit0 http://petemclean.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/found-art-on-a-grand-scale/#comment-94 artistatexit0 Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:21:36 +0000 http://petemclean.wordpress.com/?p=427#comment-94 Hard to imagine that these structures could be built without anyone noticing them? Isn't there some danger of erosion? Hard to imagine that these structures could be built without anyone noticing them? Isn’t there some danger of erosion?

]]> Comment on new mushroom prints by Pete McLean http://petemclean.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/new-mushroom-prints/#comment-76 Pete McLean Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:18:23 +0000 http://petemclean.wordpress.com/?p=417#comment-76 Have a look here and here for some more on mushroom prints. Essentially you just cut off the stem, place the mushroom gills down on the paper and cover with a bowl or something. It takes about 8-12 hours for the spores to drop out and deposite on the paper. In this case the spores were a creamy colour - as you see them in the photo - done onto black paper. It varies with the species, with some white or yellowy and some black or brown. It's been raining a bit the last few days, so hopefully a bit of mushroom printing comming up! Have a look here and here for some more on mushroom prints. Essentially you just cut off the stem, place the mushroom gills down on the paper and cover with a bowl or something. It takes about 8-12 hours for the spores to drop out and deposite on the paper. In this case the spores were a creamy colour – as you see them in the photo – done onto black paper. It varies with the species, with some white or yellowy and some black or brown. It’s been raining a bit the last few days, so hopefully a bit of mushroom printing comming up!

]]> Comment on Gully cairn by Pete McLean http://petemclean.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/gully-cairn/#comment-75 Pete McLean Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:10:56 +0000 http://petemclean.wordpress.com/?p=422#comment-75 As far as I know, Australian Indigenous people did not make rock stacks as such. They did however make what is ussually refered to as stone arrangements. I have been doing a little research just now and it seems these did sometimes include stone piles, in the form of a central stone slab with others leant in arround it. Of course indigenous traditions in Australia were quite diverse and certainly not something I have a detailed knowledge of. As far as I know, Australian Indigenous people did not make rock stacks as such. They did however make what is ussually refered to as stone arrangements. I have been doing a little research just now and it seems these did sometimes include stone piles, in the form of a central stone slab with others leant in arround it. Of course indigenous traditions in Australia were quite diverse and certainly not something I have a detailed knowledge of.

]]> Comment on leaf circles by artistatexit0 http://petemclean.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/leaf-circles/#comment-74 artistatexit0 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:49:02 +0000 http://petemclean.wordpress.com/?p=410#comment-74 I liked that you were trying to figure out why some of the leaves were white and others not. It's about knowing both the living tree and your "art material" too. I liked that you were trying to figure out why some of the leaves were white and others not. It’s about knowing both the living tree and your “art material” too.

]]> Comment on new mushroom prints by artistatexit0 http://petemclean.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/new-mushroom-prints/#comment-73 artistatexit0 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:36:58 +0000 http://petemclean.wordpress.com/?p=417#comment-73 That first print is a beauty. So how are you doing these? Are the mushroom spores white? It's always amazing to see how the microcosm mirrors the macrocosm. That first print is a beauty. So how are you doing these? Are the mushroom spores white? It’s always amazing to see how the microcosm mirrors the macrocosm.

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