LANDWORKS — JEREMIAH BURNS

Landworks Course

-Digital photography

-Watershed study

-Personal Narrative

Guided by examples of landworks such as the Nazca Lines, works by Andy Goldsworthy, David Hammonds, Eva Hesse, as well as, Jeremiah Burns, students will be shown examples of sculptures related to the following themes: Paths, Webs, Sense.

Students’ reflections on their work will be informed by artists’ commentaries exemplifying how to write about landworks, as keeping a private journals of feelings, thoughts, sketches, over the course of the semester, will confer upon students’ the opportunity to develop artistic discipline.

Complemented by digital photography accessed by phone or tablet, students will gather materials from their immediate environment, and create landworks representing one or more of the themes.

Landworks Commentaries: Jeremiah Burns

Piece Three: Fingernails

Tearing at the bark was so satisfying as I am full of fear this days in response to COVID-19. I was pleased that a camera helped me see my sculpture.

Piece Two: T-Shirt

My first idea in making this piece was to tear out an old vine that was laying across the rock. It reminded me of negative feelings.

I saw a cow bone on the ground, and with a hammer smashed it to bits, spinkling the bone bits over this piece.

The rock’s edge helped me to move my arm so that, sweeping leaves and soil aside, the piece developed an identity I interpreted as a ‘t-shirt’.

Finally, to emphasize human impact, I made a sharp line across the bottom of my piece.

Piece One: Making a Way

During the night, I had been thinking about spiders and somehow this translated to me creating a footpath up a rock face.