Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Installation Artists


The installation artist that I remembered the most and really inspired me was Andy Goldsworthy. Although the video we watched made him seem kind of strange, he was really interesting and his art was absolutely amazing! My favorite had to be the one above.
The way he used what he found in the wilderness to make his art. The tree inside of the rocks, almost like a grave, was not only clear and a beautiful photograph, but weird and interesting in its own. 

Another picture I really liked: 
This is just amazingly done. The way he used different size icicles and then managed to put them together is wonderful. I wish I could make something as beautiful as this. 

Andy Goldsworthy really inspired me to make a sculpture rather than just putting pictures on something. I am going to put my pictures on cutouts of people, and put all different types of faces, arms, bodies, etc and make them in a circle. I am going to put "We are all Connected" on the connecting pieces to show that we are all the same people and that we are all connected in some way. 

One last astonishing picture to end my post:



Thursday, September 6, 2012



This summer I spent a lot of time riding and taking pictures of horses. When I wasn't in the saddle, I was taking pictures of the landscape and the horses and their riders. A few of these are from a roll a film I shot in July at a horse show. I really enjoyed trying to capture a few unexpected moments and to practice depth of field and other things too. Horses are wonderful things to take pictures of, and it was a lot of fun!
The highlight of my summer was getting to have a riding lesson with olympic dressage competitor, Betsy Steiner! I will be having another lesson from her soon, it was really amazing to learn from her  and see how she teaches and works!
Along with horses I went up on a college tour with my mom and aunt! I saw Wellesley, Amherst, Brown, Smith, and Boston University. I really enjoyed seeing the colleges and figuring out what I liked and didn't.