Experiment with Nature » hills http://experimentwithnature.com Shwood Blog Tue, 16 Apr 2019 20:07:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.3.34 Book Sculptures – Guy Laramee http://experimentwithnature.com/03-found/book-sculptures-guy-laramee/ http://experimentwithnature.com/03-found/book-sculptures-guy-laramee/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:16:47 +0000 http://experimentwithnature.com/?p=3936 Artist Guy Laramee offers an interesting take in his work on the oft-used phrase “print is dead”.

In his own words from his artist statement: “My work, in 3D as well as in painting, originates from the very idea that ultimate knowledge could very well be an erosion instead of an accumulation. The title of one of my pieces is “All Ideas Look Alike”. Contemporary art seems to have forgotten that there is an exterior to the intellect. I want to examine thinking, not only “what” we think, but “that” we think.
So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint romantic landscapes. Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains. They erode a bit more and they become hills. Then they flatten and become fields where apparently nothing is happening. Piles of obsolete encyclopedias return to that which does not need to say anything, that which simply IS. Fogs and clouds erase everything we know, everything we think we are.
After 30 years of practice, the only thing I still wish my art to do is this: to project us into this thick “cloud of unknowing.”

Check out some examples of Guy’s sculpture below, and see more of his work at his portfolio site HERE.

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Journey 010 – Southern Saskatchewan http://experimentwithnature.com/01-journeys/journey-010-southern-saskatchewan/ http://experimentwithnature.com/01-journeys/journey-010-southern-saskatchewan/#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2014 22:03:33 +0000 http://experimentwithnature.com/?p=3874 For the 10th installment of our Journeys series Ben Giesbrecht brought some of our shades along on an exploration of the prairies of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Most people have an idea of Southern Saskatchewan as flat, boring land – in Ben’s words “When people think about Saskatchewan, they don’t often associate it with anything but painfully flat fields, farms and roads that stretch out for hundreds of miles without the slightest turn or change of pitch. They aren’t wrong. Recently, we found ourselves in the southernmost part of the province that borders on North Dakota, these are a few rare cool places we found hidden deep within the featureless land.” See some selects from Ben’s Journey below, and check out the full photo essay HERE.

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