found lawn art
Despite gardening for a good part of the summer, my yard is full of weeds. It's getting there, but it needs a lot of work.
I was doing some reading outside and started walking around the weedfest area in the backyard, and instead of being upset by the extremely overgrown garden as I usually am, I noticed some interesting looking weeds. I was inspired and decided to try the skills I learned from my floral design class I took a few years ago. I used some flowers from a bush that my mom wants to cut down... a flower that was hiding in the midst of the weedfest, some aster-looking weeds, and some dried-up grass that was sitting on the lawn...
This is what I came up with:
I took the idea of a "line" design, which uses three major focal points; the base and the tips of the two lines, which meet in the middle at an angle (usually more obtuse than my little acute angle). For the container, I cut off the bottom of a water bottle-- which I covered with the dead grass (which I braided together and wrapped around).
It reminded me a lot of "found art" ...but I feel like I did a bit more work than Duchamp.
I was doing some reading outside and started walking around the weedfest area in the backyard, and instead of being upset by the extremely overgrown garden as I usually am, I noticed some interesting looking weeds. I was inspired and decided to try the skills I learned from my floral design class I took a few years ago. I used some flowers from a bush that my mom wants to cut down... a flower that was hiding in the midst of the weedfest, some aster-looking weeds, and some dried-up grass that was sitting on the lawn...
This is what I came up with:
I took the idea of a "line" design, which uses three major focal points; the base and the tips of the two lines, which meet in the middle at an angle (usually more obtuse than my little acute angle). For the container, I cut off the bottom of a water bottle-- which I covered with the dead grass (which I braided together and wrapped around).
It reminded me a lot of "found art" ...but I feel like I did a bit more work than Duchamp.