Yorkshire Sculpture Park Visit
Today we visited the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and once again I began to wonder if we were artists or designers. Visiting a sculpture park seemed to suggest we were in fact 'artists' but my complete lack of understanding of any of the 'art' or sculptures at the park proved the fact I was a obviously a designer (or perhaps maybe just a very bad artist).
Walking for 2.5KM to visit a gallery with various pieces of work called 'sheep shit snowball' (literally) seemed to me to be a waste of time, and as the main galleries wouldn't allow for photographs to be taken inside them we decided to take our own pictures on the long trek back. I'll upload them soon.
After spending a just over an hour in the park our creative side began to come out however and we tried to create some of our own 'artwork'. This began simply with Craig and Scott kicking leaves to create lines in them showing the grass beneath. Though this sounds nothing special, neither does a wooden hut or a sculpture of a man when that is all that's said about it.
We then got the idea to create our own 'leaf angel' and as no one wanted to get dirty I decided to be the one to do it. Although it didn't turn out as well as planned, the idea was definitely there. Scott and Craig took some photos of it so hopefully they will post some on their blogs or send them to me to upload.
We then began messing around with our cameras, burying them in leaves, setting the timer and throwing them between us and spinning them around again whilst on timer. These pictures created some quite unique shots which do actually look quite good and could possibly be used for various design pieces (hopefully over the next few weeks)
We also began using our shadows to create pictures including us standing behind each other to make it just look like one person, and us basically being stupid sticking our arms out in weird ways and taking photos. Again these worked out quite well and again hopefully Craig and Scott will upload some of their pictures soon, as will I.
In the end I was thoroughly enjoying myself in the park, more so than on any of my previous visits, and was quite disappointed that we had to be back at college and would of happily continued to spend time in the park just being creative. As Scott quite rightly said 'It sometimes takes hours to be creative, it can take just a simple thing to set you off.
Oh, and I still don't understand the big fuss about the sky space sculpture - after my third time of viewing it.
1 comment:
I think you may be trying too hard to find a reason for some of the art pieces, a bit like t’other Craig has said about art in general. Sometime Art does not need a reason, and this can be the beauty of it – the very fact it has been brought into existence by someone should be fascinating enough.
You almost contradict yourself in your post as you say that you don’t understand why pieces have been made, but when you effectively create your own you seem quite interested in it.
You don’t know why you made the leaf angel – it just happened. Can you see any beauty in it? Does it provoke an emotion? These are things the viewer can decide for themselves – you have just created the stimulus.
This idea could easily be made into a piece of art; 4 photographs, one from each season, of angels created in a variety of materials. Snow, leaves, Sand and grass. Print it onto a 20x20inch square piece of paper, frame it. Piece of Art, done. (Gordon Ramsey style there).
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