Art from the Backyard

So last month when I was out sick and construction kicked our class into the library the other students went on an exploitative art project. Looking at their blogs I felt slightly deprived of that project and decided to make it up on my own today. Inspired by the work of Andy Goldsworthy, it takes natural objects from nature and arranges them into a visually attractive sculpture. Here are a few of his pieces:
 
  

Working with my hands after the backyard scavenger hunt(which really reminded me of days when I was younger and would go outside to make flower bouquets) I was gathered up a variety of materials.

Here our the sculptures I made! My favorite is the first one, where I braided the cattail stems.

Another favorite!

 

Since I am now in the midst of my time-consuming module project, it was really nice to do a project that had beautiful results that only took an hour and a half (most of that time was fiddling with the camera).