{"id":1044,"date":"2012-03-03T13:34:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T21:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2012-03-03T21:31:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T05:31:55","slug":"environmental-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=1044","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early on in my education at Ohio State University, I became aware of artists who would go to a site and use the materials present on that site to make a work. Often the work appeared as though it occurred naturally. <\/p>\n<p>I had a romantic notion of visiting the woods near my parents\u2019 home, connect with the site, and make a work. When I attempted it, I realized right off that I wasn\u2019t alone. There were snakes, mosquitos, and ticks, all of which creeped me out.<\/p>\n<p>I recently read about Stuart Wood\u2019s environmental work on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studiogblog.com\/shop-for-garden-products\/art\/scorched-wood-inspiration-from-stuart-frost\/\" >Studio \u2018g\u2019 blog<\/a>. The images of his scorched patterns on trees gave me pause. I like the idea of using a scorching process to alter a material. And that controlling a potentially destructive process can result in something beautiful.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered\" src=\"\/images\/Bad-middle-large.jpg\" alt=\"Stuart Wood's Bandelier\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuartianfrost.com\/\" >Stuart Wood\u2019s website<\/a> I found many gorgeous pieces. And I admit that I found myself saying out loud, \u201c\u2026really, seagull feathers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered\" src=\"\/images\/cls_RedimImg.asp.jpeg\" alt=\"Stuart Wood's Alsomitra\" \/><\/p>\n<hr class=\"hrVisible\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early on in my education at Ohio State University, I became aware of artists who would go to a site and use the materials present on that site to make a work. Often the work appeared as though it occurred naturally. I had a romantic notion of visiting the woods near my parents\u2019 home, connect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=1044\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Environmental Art<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,24,15,9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-fiber","category-materials","category-nature","category-processes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":66,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}