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MyDruidArt

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zdTgl4IyYXpRFzq66pBjm4NoOMWEbQSs

 

Yellow Bird Blog                    http://yellowbirdscribble.blogspot.com/

Chronopod                             www.vanderbilt.edu/chronopod

 

Nashville Artists RegIstry      

www.artsnashville.org/registry/indexphpscan=az&main=artist&id=193

 

Faculty Homepage                www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/philosophy/faculty/wood.html

Spiral Resonance Field        http://www.landartnm.org/balloon-museum.html

 

Installations 

 

"Skyscape: Meeting the Birds Halfway", 45' tower dedicated to the 72 species of birds documented at Yellow Bird (2018- )

 

Curator: Silvan Laan and Emily Thomas, "Virgo Rising and Inverted Bird Blind", two art works/installations, Yellow Bird Artscape, Fall 2016/Spring 2017.

 

Major sculpture installation, "Passing TransFigures", 10 large white painted geometrical wooden outdoor sculptures, Yellow Bird Artscape, March 2017

 

Reinstallation and reconstruction, "Awakening: Heliotrope IV" (a major piece of earth art), Yellow Bird Artscape, March/April 2017 [see poem carved into the wood, below]

 

"Awakening: Heliotrope IV", Vanderbilt Campus, 2016

 

"Redwoods", Yellow Bird Art Farm, Summer 2015

 

"Reclining Geomorphs", Yellow Bird Art Farm, Summer 2015

 

“ Eternal Return” video installation, Matralab Conference, Montreal, Oct 2013

 

IntraTerrestrials: Landing Sites, on going installation series. #7 near Po Lam Zen Monastery, Lantau Island, Hong Kong April 2013

 

“Thinking Like a Sand Crab”, Exhibition and Keynote lecture, Stony Brook Manhattan Philosophy and the Arts Annual Conference, “Still Life”, 2012

 

Heliotrope IV, Arts Center of Cannon County, Woodbury, TN, 2011-2

 

Cheekwood HeliotropeTwinstallation: “Awakening” *(Sculpture Trail) and “Reflections” (Lower Pond), Nashville, 2011

 

Participant in Sao Paulo (Brazil)/Vanderbilt Art exchange: Fall 2010 with funding from Vanderbilt

 

“Awakening”, (Nov 2010 – Jan 2011) Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Building/ 25th Ave S, Vanderbilt University, Nashville. Wood, wire, laser discs, solar lights, 41’ diameter, 2” thick, with inscribed poem “Awakening Words”. In three phases.

 

“Heliotrope II” (Fall 2010) Parthenon, Lake Watauga, Centennial Park, Nashville. Floating sculpture. Wood, steel, aluminum, wire, laser discs, solar lights, 40’ diameter, 40 spokes. In two phases.

 

“Art as ark”, Bangladesh Art Project, Dhaka, March 6-14, 2010. Water video-interviews with villagers; sculpture and photography.

 

Coastal Installations and photographic presentation: “Imagination Displacement Transformation: A Photographic Essay” at Thinking the World in the Twenty-First Century (Conference), University of Tasmania / Australian Phenomenology and Hermeneutics Association (APHA), Hobart, Tasmania, April 30th and May 1st, 2010

 

Installation of “Heliotrope” on Westhampton Lake, University of Richmond campus for Land Art and Landscape Seminar, University of Richmond, March 2010

http://picasaweb.google.com/111369049772123131327/Heliotrope3152010#

http://picasaweb.google.com/111369049772123131327/HeliotropeWaterInstallation#

 

“Weerewaa Vortex” (2009), Lake George, Canberra, Australia, 2009. 600 CDs arranged in a triple spiral in a dried-up lake bed. 250’ diameter.

 

“Spiral Resonance Field: Glint of Sun, Voice of Wind”( Land Art) Anderson-Abruzzo International Balloon Museum, Albuquerque, NM / Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM /Mountainair NM [virtual installation], July-Nov 2009. Part II was acquired by the Center for Contemporary Arts (Santa Fe), for its permanent collection. Stainless steel, iron, aluminum, PVC, nylon, wood. 300 solar lights, atop 300 undulating white PVC poles 1’-12’ high, set on laserdisc lily-pads, and arranged in a double spiral, with a pair of Aeolian harps, invitations to the wind. The whole installation was curated by LandArt New Mexico, 516Arts.

 

“Projected Framescapes”, Writer’s Cabin site with surreal viewing windows (YB)

 

“Floating Gallery”, Natural objects find themselves unexpectedly surrounded by a gallery space (YB)

 

“Mirror Refractions in the Yucatan (After Robert Smithson)”, Art/Text performance piece, The Animal Gaze conference, London Metropolitan University, Nov 2008

 

“Spiral Jetty Redux”, 2006 Great Salt Lake, Utah: a reworking of Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty.

 

“Angel Spiral”, 200’ diameter, 308 CDs, Great Sand Dunes, Colorado, 2005

 

Chronopod series: time capsules buried around the world (England, Australia, USA, Finland), imagining the future. 

 

Poem (see "Awakening" above)

Awakening Words

 

“changed, changed utterly

A terrible beauty is born.”

 

 

Even a flotilla of angels

Hatched at dazzle dawn

Would be outflanked by

These feeler strands of time

 

While they seem asleep

Recumbent on the grass

An electric sky applauds

Each tiny stir or twitch

 

As on the morning tide when

Beach stones pose as eggs

Licked by urgent waves

Splashing slow grey skins

 

This mole-blind Leviathan

Will surely rattle headstones

As it creaks its way along

Mumbling articulation

 

While wisest beards observe

The flight of Time’s new firebird

My heart cannot drown the hope

Of your exquisite touch

 

Trembling with the quiet truth

That what rends the firmament

Casting stars from any track

Is your shadowed descent

 

And yet desire

Was not born with me

 

Is not each now brim-bursting

With the future it must bear?

Does not each here long

To nudge a distant there?

 

Does not every frozen being

Imagine breathing out and in

Does not every resting shape

Fantasize being animate?

 

All earthly things have dreamed

Of loosening their wings

While birds and butterflies

Are launched on skies beyond

 

Love may be a straggler

A ripple in the swell

But joy will shed its rosy cheeks

As flotsam in the sound

 

Lend dormancy your weather eye

A touch, a cosmic hug, a sign,

May soon direct a hungry breeze

Across old Gaia’s loins

 

Slothful somnambulist

Last raggedy man

This call’s for us for sure

And this time we must take it

 

Lest with sorry whimpering

We make a legless exit