{"id":439,"date":"2010-04-05T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T07:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/2010\/isabellas-land-art\/"},"modified":"2010-04-05T08:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T07:39:00","slug":"isabellas-land-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/isabellas-land-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Isabella’s Land Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you come across Land Art? A few years back, I discovered a book by Andy Goldsworthy<\/a> and sat for ages enjoying this delicious feast for the eyes.<\/p>\n

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The other day, I was doing the first garden tidy up of the spring and out of the corner of my eye I saw a very industrious Isabella gathering items from the garden and laying them, very intentionally, in a line on a piece of wood she had found.\u00a0 I so love watching her when she gets into this kind of artistic groove. Its like she is feeling each thing she is placing. It reminded me of a comment by another mosaic artist that I read the other day, about the learning she had gleaned from amazing Ilana Shafir’<\/a>s ‘spontaneous mosaic’ class – that you pick up each piece and connect with it to feel where it should be placed. I guess children are much closer to this instinct and connection between the physical and ethereal – they don’t need to go to a class to unlearn and relearn these things.<\/p>\n

It also reminded me of a great interview I read on The Artful Parent <\/a>about fellow Brit, Richard Shilling’<\/a>s ‘Land Art for Kids’. <\/em>This is great stuff – art, beauty, nature…all rolled into one.<\/p>\n

We are off to the beach for a few days, no doubt our trip will involve lots of pebble collecting (an obsession of mine) and a perhaps the creation of a little masterpiece or two…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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