Landscape Sporting Big Statements
November 4, 2010 by Robin Plaskoff Horton
If you were wandering through Belgium’s Parc de Chaudfontaine, you might become awestruck by a giant clothespin “pinching” the grass landscape. Artist Uysal Mehmet Ali’s Pinching Earth plays with our perception of scale: the clothespin is 20 times greater than the height of an average person.
Ali has integrated the sculpture seamlessly into the landscape–one does not exist independently of the other, each needs the other to be complete. The clothespin “lifts” the mound of earth up 20 feet. The art project was for the town of Chaudfontaine, which is focused on the protection of biodiversity and natural sites. Perhaps with oversized household object, the artist is making the statement that we too, as humans, need to live in harmony with our environment?
Category: Experiencing, Garden Art
Tags: landscape art, outdoor sculpture, urban landscapes
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This is fabulous! Sculpting the earth to look like an enormous green blanket being held by the clothespin must have been a fascinating process to watch as well.
— November 5, 2010 @ 05:45
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I just love this and wish I could take a stroll by this amazing piece of art!
— November 8, 2010 @ 04:38
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