Where are the Sandglyphs of Yesteryear
Geof Huth, "Wreed" (15 April 2004)
Sometime last year, I learned to create sandglyphs, small doodle-like visual poems carved into the sand. A few days after my first creations, I decided to try to photograph these small creations before the sea erased them. On this page, I present a couple of these. Considering that I wrew these poems between the pulses of wave up the beach, these are reasonably interesting, but the problem with this form is it does not allow much time for reflection. I must imagine and create each poem in a matter of seconds, and just as quickly it disappears.
Geof Huth, "foot foot foot" (15 April 2004)
I present these poems today for two reasons. First, I was in Florida with my wife and son when I created these, and they are now (just about a year later) back in Florida, but without me. Second, I recently had these slides developed, and I picked them up only today.
ecr. l'inf.
5 comments:
I really like these. They remind me of Richard Long's art and has me wanting to try something like it myself. I always like it when this stuff leaves the page or screen behind, even though I am only viewing a photographic trace of that.
thought-provoking, a visual pleasure, and so fragile (temporally).
something very beautiful here. i keep thinking of goldsworthy's rivers and tides and wishing i could see you make these, and then see the tides contribution.
surely what you note as their chief limitation is also a key source of their strength?
ron silliman's note had me wandering this way, and i love the range of your work from the three (count em) examples i've seen. nzxt
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and thank you for the idea of such slow typing.
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skarmj and Kyle,
Thanks for these words.
What strikes me about these is how they almost disappear, how difficult it was even to photograph them properly.
As if they didn't want to be captured at all.
Geof
Geof,
Have you ever written anything about Gallsworthy?
That would be a great conversation, you & AG. Maybe someday sometime somebody will be able to set that up!....
Mark,
You mean Andy Goldsworthy, right?
If so, see this:
http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2005/03/flowers-leaves-branches-sticks-lichen.html
Geof
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