Andy Goldsworthy Inspired Art

This project was inspired by Goldsworthy's Sticks (2 works), 1987 in combination with Goldsworthy's Grass stalks joined drawing a rock, 1991. I used these as inspiration and picked up big rocks out of the creek that are smooth and then collecting sticks and snapping them into different sizes and rimmed the rocks with the sticks to make it look a nest. I then filled the middle with little rocks I collected from the creek and I love how it turned out. Title: Uncomfortable Nest Materials: Creek Rocks, Sticks Sarah Hibma, 2020

This project was done at the creek instead of at my house. I found some interesting looking logs/sticks that I found in the creek that are very black and balanced them in a fun way. I like both of the balancing sticks projects the same because they are both unique in their ways. However, I think I like this one even better because it is done at the creek with sticks that you do not see normally in the woods. These sticks had been beaten by the flowing creek and made black and sharp which I found really interesting and fun. It was hard to balance these sticks for the same reason as the last project, because of the wind. Also, these are more heavy so the wind would put the balance off and they would slide off. Overall I love how this turned out. Title: Balance 2 Materials: sticks/logs Sarah Hibma 2020

Goldsworthy had a piece where he put together colorful leaves and floated them down the river. I wanted to see if I could do that too. There are not a lot of colorful these this time of year. The leaves that are on the ground are brown, so I used skunk cabbage leaves that are very green. I used some young branches to weave the leaves together and then floated it down the creek. Later, on my way back home. I found colorful little yellow flowers so I thought since I didn't have a lot of color in the last floating piece I would do a small little thing with the flowers.  I picked a handful of them and dropped them down the stream, and I thought it was pretty how it turned out. Here are videos of both. Title: Drifting Materials: Skunk cabbage leaves, branches Sarah Hibma, 2020 Title: Floating Materials: Yellow flowers Sarah Hibma, 2020

This next piece was inspired by Goldsworthy's Bamboo Spires, 1987. This was inspired by the shape of the spires and because instead of using sticks again, as the last few parts, I used wet sand. I found some rocks along the creek and grabbed sand from the cold water and dribbled it into little spires. I was only going to do the five little dribbles on one rock, but I saw there was a line of rocks along the edge of the creek so I made more even though my hands were numb. The tallest one came to be around the hight of a pencil. Title: Dribbled Spires Materials: wet sand Sarah Hibma, 2020

The second project I made inspired by Goldsworthy's Stacked Sticks, 1989. For this sculpture, I went to the creek and found a fallen tree and used branches and balanced those branches at an angle on the fallen tree. I was kind of making what looks like a lean-to, but stacking up the sticks as Goldsworthy did. I wanted to add more color and dimension to it, so I took moss and more sticks and some wet sand and filled in the gaps. I really like how it turned out and how it got my heart pumping from lifting heavy branches. Title: Leaning Materials: branches, sticks, wet sand, moss Sarah Hibma. 2020

This piece was inspired by a piece I saw of Goldsworthy called Screen, 1998. So to keep on the theme I went into my yard and collected some sticks. My piece is not as big as his, but I did my best. I took one stick and pushed it into the ground and used the rest of the sticks to balance around that one which was grounded. A few times a breeze would come and I would hold my breath as the less secure sticks would wobble and fall. However, I just put them back on and continued. This is what it turned out to look like. It came up to my hip at the tallest point.  Title: Balance Materials: Sticks Sarah Hibma, 2020