GROTTO
Gate
to Poustinia
HERMITAGE
POUSTINIA a retreat in the wilderness The sculptural elements
hereby presented are a form of art known as sited sculptures and land art.
Sited sculptures are three-dimensional objects carefully placed in their
surroundings. Since sculpture and landscape are closely related, they blend
and complement with one another. Land art relates more to the manipulation
of the surroundings; it uses landscape and changes it into sculpture through
the use of available materials to create either internal or external spaces,
or both. It becomes then a form of architecture. Most sculptural objects
in Poustinia are man and nature made. The artist initiates the process
and then allows nature to take over and shape it at its will; the object
is then transformed. What was thus an inert object gradually gains life.
Branches grow; termites nest, and butterflies alight as spiders spin their
webs on it. The spirit then comes alive in art. Such is the spirit of Poustinia
- an art that is alive, in communion with nature. More
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