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Choosing what I would make for my interpretation of Andy Goldsworthy's art wasn't easy, so I looked up some of his artwork on the Internet and found many photo's of his work. One thing I noticed was that a lot of the sculptures were in a spiral shape. Bearing this in mind, I went outside and started to make my sculpture. Whilst thinking of materials I could use, I noticed a very pretty Acer. There were lots of its leaves that had fallen off of the Acer around it so I picked them up and put them in a small pile. I found some acorns and their shells and added them to the pile. Next, I found some leaves in two different colours, red and green, and added them to my pile which was then quite big. I decided that I had enough materials and so I started to make a plan. I drew on a plain piece of A4 paper what I thought I could do. Using the idea of spirals, I created many different ways to have the materials set out, until i came to a decision of having just one spiral in the middle. |  |
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I found a background, which was the stones in my front garden, and placed four red leaves down and put three acorn shells on top. Then I used the leaves from the Acer and put them in a spiral shape around the red leaves and acorn shells. Next, I joined onto the end of the Acer leaf spiral some green leaves. Finally, I placed the acorns in between the spirals of Acer and green leaves to finish off my sculpture. I knew it wouldn't be long until the wind blew it away, so I quickly took a few photos of it and left it. I was quite surprised, how long it stayed there in my front garden, however, by the next day, it had almost totally disappeared except for the red leaves with the acorn shells on top! |  |
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Copyright © Aimée Mackenzie 27 October 2006 |
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