ART - Yellow Bird Artscape

School Bus

Another piece of classic Americana to be converted either into a kid’s art/fun bus, or into another cabin. Right now – a space of possibility.

Shed

Randall built this wonderful shed by the house.

Before – After

Alien Stepping Stones

After Christo

Awakening

A long poem is written on the outer ‘petals’ of this heliotrope. Installed March 2012 originally on the Vanderbilt campus.

Awakening Words
“changed, changed utterly A terrible beauty is born.”

Even a flotilla of angels Hatched at dazzle dawn Would be outflanked by These feeler strands of time

While they seem asleep Recumbent on the grass An electric sky applauds Each tiny stir or twitch

As on the morning tide when Beach stones pose as eggs Licked by urgent waves Splashing slow grey skins

This mole-blind Leviathan Will surely rattle headstones As it creaks its way along Mumbling articulation

While wisest beards observe The flight of Time’s new firebird My heart cannot drown the hope Of your exquisite touch

Trembling with the quiet truth That what rends the firmament Casting stars from any track Is your shadowed descent

And yet desire Was not born with me

Is not each now brim-bursting With the future it must bear? Does not each here long To nudge a distant there?

Does not every frozen being Imagine breathing out and in Does not every resting shape Fantasize being animate?

All earthly things have dreamed Of loosening their wings While birds and butterflies Are launched on skies beyond

Love may be a straggler A ripple in the swell But joy will shed its rosy cheeks As flotsam in the sound

Lend dormancy your weather eye A touch, a cosmic hug, a sign, May soon direct a hungry breeze Across old Gaia’s loins

Slothful somnambulist Last raggedy man bThis call’s for us for suren And this time we must take it

Lest with sorry whimpering We make a legless exit

Bone Meal

Colour Balance

Druid Conference

FireFlash

Twelve 10′ hanging painted boards through which the trail meanders

Floating Gallery

The Floating Gallery reverses the movement of Earth Art (taking art out of the gallery) and takes the gallery out of the gallery. The Floating Gallery is a predatory creature seeking to capture exhibition pieces.

Found Hepworth

Iron Rings

Memory of my Mother

Passing TransFigures

Ten chunky spiraling wooden figures flanking the path up to the meditation temple, each a single line rising up in twists and turns sometimes switching back to almost touch its tail. Bright white aleatory geometry challenges grey limestone and scraggy trees. Floodlit at night, these spectral shapes mark the passing of some who have passed on.

Figure #1 being sited (with Leopard)

Peace Circle

The Peace Circle consisted of 21 Leylandii (conifers) planted in April 26 2003 during the invasion of Iraq. Under one tree, a Chronopod (time-capsule) was buried lamenting the folly to come, and apologizing to history. Over 200,000 Iraqi civilians died. There were no WMDs.

Most of the trees eventually died – drowned in the clay soil.