Here are two of my favorite things combined, art and the beach. Discovered the work of Jim Deneven and thought I’d share. He does this freehand with a stick. There is something so beautiful about ephemeral art. It emphasizes the experience of the art process without concern for object. It is being in and of the moment, something important about art and self that is so easy for us to be distracted from or to simply just forget. In a way, the ephemeral speaks to us of the the importance of memory and mindfulness.
There are more images on the artist’s website.
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Those are truly incredible.
They really are.
Coolness!
I tend to just veg out on the beach. That looks like work.
Wow! Amazing and wonderful!
Those were my first three thoughts.
Wow!! Very cool!
Have you seen the film Rivers and Tides?
Yes! I love it. I actually even own a copy. :-)
Speaking of that director, have you seen “Touch the Sound” with the musician Evelyn Glennie?
I haven’t seen it. I’ll look that one up.
She’s a percussionist musician, and she’s “profoundly” deaf. It’s very cool! I definitely recommend it.
Granted, I love Rivers and Tides more, but then that’s because he’s a visual artist and his medium is nature which are two things I just dig! :-)
oh wow.
….and wow. :)
This just blew my mind.
It’s good to have your mind blown now and then.
Wow.
Nature and art. My favorite combo.
WOW. Thanks for sharing this. I LOVE the spiral like crazy!
I love spirals like crazy. C.P. and I are trying to build one in our garden out of flagstones and beach quartz. It is certainly not as easy to lay out a spiral as Jim Deneven makes it look.
Wow. I’m going to echo this in my LJ.
I think he should advertised everywhere possible.
i’m spreading the word too.
I think blogs are the best thing to happen to artists in a long time.
Amazing!
Thanks for posting this…I have to show Gabriel this art. Gaby has a very limited view of the way art should look & be created, so I think this will help open his mind a bit.
:)
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How curious. Does he criticize art that he thinks isn’t properly created?
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Only his own!
Any form of expression with his hands on paper (painting, drawing, even coloring) has always been a major trigger for episodes for him. I’m not sure if it is because of his fine motor skills issues (ie, had difficulties learning to tie his shoes until 7 1/2, issues with writing) or because of the delay between the signals from his eyes to his brain or just the fact that his imagination is incredibly vivid, so nothing he creates looks the way he sees it in his head. Gabriel feels art has to be perfect and true to life – a painted or drawn photograph, essentially.
He doesn’t criticize other’s art because he isn’t cruel, but I haven’t yet asked him if he thought something was “art” to see how he feels about it. I only know that any time I explained to him about the different kinds of art, and how it is about expressing yourself & the emotion is what makes it art (and that it doesn’t have to be perfect) he blew me off and didn’t believe me. He has seen art on the computer (he likes Boticelli & similar artists’ work) & has a little book my friend gave him of paintings.
He is finally at the point where I feel I can take him to an art museum, so we are going to do that during winter break.
wow
I love the beach and the water, combining that with art is amazing, you are right. How wonderful to spend the day creating such a piece of art. It would be fascinating to watch. These remind me of Tibetan sand paintings. I love it.
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I thought of Tibetan sand paintings.
My jaw dropped. Gorgeous!
Oh thanks! I’ve had that first photo saved on my computer for a few years and never knew who created it. I am amazed at how perfectly laid out these are from above.
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I am amazed at how perfectly laid out these are from above.
Small planes often take their flight patterns over the coastline. I wonder if some of those drawings mess with the perception of the pilots at all. The box and the cross specifically. From a certain angle, they create a rather surreal optical illusion.
Holy crap. I shared this with my best friend, also an artist, but not in the same medium. :)
OMG… all those little circles! I saw the picture of him bending over, and my back started aching in sympathy, lol.
Truly amazing though.
He could always take a swim.
I should make a thoughtful comment about your post and that lovely artwork but instead all I can think is “ooh! Klaus Schultz!” LOL
I love art that fades back into the environment. “…leaving nothing.” Exactly as it should be.
That new Klaus Schultz collaboration with Gerrard is amazing.
Ideally, everything would leave nothing.
He does sell photographs of his work and he’s a chef so I am sure he eats well. :)
so utterly amazing! i had, earlier this week, glimpsed this flickr set, by a fellow who seems to have his hand in all kinds o’ fun things like kite photography, pooh sticks(!), and leaving strange egg pods on the beach. ..i also liked this sand castle which looks like some sort of fungal grotto or taoist cloud palace:
Oops. I mean to post the link.
That is the strangest sand castle I’ve ever seen. The “egg pods” are also strange but interesting. No one builds castles or egg pods on our beach, just sand pits that I have to be careful not to fall into.
I like the rake art.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lenny_meriel/sets/846051/
thanks for the link
beautiful..and i like that it isn’t permanent and he just gets a stick from the beach to work with… and beautiful stuff from flickr too