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Wednesday, 15 July 2015

Richard Long

In today's lecture, I learnt the detail of "How to lose yourself". If I try to lose myself, serendipity- good result come out from unexpected. The way of lost is not easy, However, the process is important to get serendipity.


Richard Long is an artist who try to get ideas from journey with walking in landscapes.

"Long made his international reputation during the 1970s with sculptures made as the result of epic walks, sometimes lasting many days, to remote parts of the world. " (Tate site) 

He has interest about the relationship between nature and human. He did long adventure, and lost and find himself in there.

He told that "In the nature of things: Art about mobility, lightness and freedom. Simple creative acts of walking and marking about place, locality, time, distance and measurement. Works using raw materials and my human scale in the reality of landscapes." in his site.

He always blends his work into nature. One of his work is ROAD STONE LINE (China, 2010) below.
He took stones on the way and lined these along the way. He left his footprint carefully not to destroy landscape, but people feel a sign of life at once.

Sometime he uses stone, sometime ice. It depends on nature because he tries to create all things  with his hands. As he said, he makes the work with the emphasis on his human scale because of reality. 




He makes his work as it is the process of agriculture. 



or it looks like ritual.



or an sign after children are into playing.



I can think many meaning from his works, but it is only certain thing that Richard went there and do something and left something in nature. 


Moreover, in the exhibition, he displays different type of artworks.



This is named MUD HAND CIRCLES (New York, 1989). He lined his hand prints as his work in nature. It does not looks like hand prints. He turn himself into artwork. I feel anxious from repetition of handprints because his body sign has strong will but I cannot predict meaning.




I think it is interesting that in the exhibition in a museum, his work seems to be different from in nature. He constructed his work to fit building as if building is nature landscape. In the building, natural stone is unfamiliar stuff. 



This stones are nor cut. However, he replaced these with his will and show it looks like between nature and artificial.

I feel fragile and strong life of human and nature from his works.This is why people are attracted to Richard Long.

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