Still Life In Driftwood

20 Replies to “Still Life In Driftwood”

1. maybe, but it looks like a photoshop job to me. Sorry I’m such a skeptic.

2. Wow. Pick the Back link on the referenced page and check out some of Heather Jansch’s other works in driftwood and bronze.

3. Possibly I’m not artsy enough, but those statues creep the hell out of me. Why oh why is it that so much modern art is so damnably ugly?

4. I think they’re stunning – a giant step above the rattan reindeers.

5. That art is really quite amazing…my personal favourite still remains Fusilli Jerry…

6. A Wiccan and her coven.

7. Thing I like about them is they way they create the surface effects and substance of the sculptees, via the technique of revealing their internal structural abstraction, using a single type of found material.
   (Oh no, Vitruvius as art critic, run away, run away 😉

8. I saw three of her horses some years ago exhibited outdoors at Canary Wharf in London’s Docklands development. They are truly astonishing “in the flesh” so to speak. Far from being creepy, they express the essence of the subject in a vivid, powerful and, above all, exquisitely beautiful manner.
   It seems to me these are brilliant examples of true originality. I’d put Jansch in the same class as Stubbs when it comes to horse art: she understands the spirit of the animal.
   I would dearly like to own one, but getting it from Devon to Calgary would present some problems, not to mention the cost.

9. I agree with Patrick. I too felt, right on first observation, that “she understands the spirit of the animal”.

10. Very nice. I wonder if the pieces are altered by, for example, steaming them soft so the pieces can be bent. They remind me of a puzzle ring.

11. I looked at the other horses as well. I think the feet look too real, and I find the morph into wood kind of freaky — like they gazed at Medusa, or something (the turn to wood Medusa, that is).

12. Many of the pictures seem to lack a convincing shadow. Still, quite impressive.

13. I just received this e-file yesterday. We were just amazed at the artistry. The cool thing is, if you are a horse lover, these pieces have just amazing lines and muscle tones. Got to love it!

14. Spend some time soaking in the spirit of these sculptures and I promise, the first time you step in a pile of bark chips you’ll swear at yourself and wonder how you’re going to clean your shoe… :}

15. It would be even cooler if it had just washed up on the shore already looking like a horse. Then we would have to have an Intelligent Design debate over it.
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16. these are derivative; deborah butterfield did it first,and better

17. Horse sculptures: Alonzo Clemons is amazing in his own way. Some may remember this savant from a 60 Minutes profile:
    http://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/savant/clemons.cfm
    “Even as a child, Alonzo Clemons demonstrated the uncanny ability to mold clay into amazingly detailed animal figures he had never even seen. It was talent that only a genius could possess. But it was puzzling: Alonzo couldn’t even feed himself or tie his shoes.”

18. Now & then there is some sanity in the “art” world. This man is sane & he is 35 years of age. Kudos to Kiprop Lagat.
    What will be his fate? +
    ‘Stolen’ treasures better off in the West, says African curator
    Posted by MadIvan
    On 04/12/2006 11:16:15 PM PDT � 7 replies � 113+ views
    The Daily Telegraph ^ | April 13, 2006 | Mike Pflanz
    Antiquities “looted” during the colonial era are better off in western collections than being returned to Africa, according to a Kenyan curator overseeing an exhibition of artefacts loaned to Nairobi by the British Museum.Governments in Africa and other former colonies have long demanded that Europe hands back boatloads of relics plundered by explorers, anthropologists, missionaries and others before and during colonisation. But facilities to care for precious objects that may otherwise be left to rot are far better among the world’s great museum houses than those in Africa, Kiprop Lagat said yesterday. Mr Lagat, 35, is running a six-month exhibition… +
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1614244/posts

19. Maz2: Better believe it- if they were kept in Africa, they would have been eaten by now, (and they would have cut down a tree to cook it with, too!) (Wazzat- you gotta walk 14 miles to find a tree to cook your lunch with!)

20. My little 4 year old saw this and asked “daddy, I’ve never seen an animal with its bones outside”. You try and explain art to a 4 year old.