Displacement
Land Art. Created En-Plein Air at the Center for Polish Sculpture at Oronsko, Poland from April 14-17 2007 with the Sculpture Division of the Academy of Fine Arts at Warsaw during the 2006-07 Fulbright Fellowship. Constructed with the generously exurberant assistance of fellow students from ASP: Witek Nazarkiewicz, Marcin Fabiński and Paweł Chmielewski.
The original idea was to create a coffin-like hole in the ground and literally displace the entirety of this cut-out on the ground above and to compare these two polar opposite of "function" -- that we often think of the ground below us to be completely devoid of life, but it is, in fact, quite the opposite. After hitting the water table of a nearby pond about 2 feet down, I revised the final size as the original parameters still worked -- brillantly, in fact, as the water seeped into the cut-out void as a symbol of a life giving entity.
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Size : 12' x (4') x 2.5'
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Date : 2007
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Status: Temporary Land Art
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From left, a visit by Tomek Górnicki, Witek Nazarkiewicz (raking), Marcin Fabiński (kneeling), and standing in the back by a wheelbarrow, Paweł Chmielewski.
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Witek Nazarkiewicz and Marcin Fabiński forming soil.
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Marcin Fabiński and Witek Nazarkiewicz.
