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Touch the Earth - Artforms & Materials | A Natural State - Episode 6

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Several art forms and concepts are experienced through the nature-based sculpture program:

Experiential: "Allowing the viewer to experience the sculpture by entering its space allows the viewer to become an integral part of the work. As such, the meaning and/or purpose of each piece is determined by the individual's experience." (Clemson University)

Ephemeral: Temporary art that is susceptible to decay and the elements and thus changes over time.

Site-Specific: Art that is created for a specific place or landscape. Site-specific artists incorporate their surroundings into the concept of their work.

Installation: Artworks that alter or enhance our experience of the place in which the work resides.

Nature-based: Sculptures created with natural materials.

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Clemson's Nature-Based Sculpture Program reinvents the art gallery as an outdoor experience where the sculptor's hand is revealed through exploration and discovery. There are no signs to lead visitors...
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The Nature-based sculpture program is a collaborative project between artists, and students and teachers from a broad range of university studies. Horticulture, landscape architecture, English...
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How do you define nature when its definition has changed through the centuries? The definition and idea of "art," "nature"and "natural" are difficult terms to pin down. Technology and our evolving...
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Ernie Denny's vision of a nature-based sculpture program was inspired by a dream about children playing inside a giant bronze flower. The program's "gallery" would be nestled amid rolling hills of the...
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The nature-based art form blends natural materials, manmade construction and landscape into mysterious expressions of our relationship to the earth. The Serpent Mound in Ohio attributed to the Adena...
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Artworks in the nature-based sculpture program are categorized as "ephemeral" and "extended ephemeral." Ephemeral work has a relatively short life span. Works like Patrick Daugherty's Sittin' Pretty...