Landscape

Difference between Landscape and Earth work in experience creating them and in the images themselves?

For me, my landscape picture and my earth work pictures are very different from each other, both in how they were made and what they say. The landscape picture was taken by myself at night and it was a very solitary experience. On the other hand, the earth works was a group project and we collaborated a lot on the ideas and the actual products of the project, also it was a day and just in general more of a social experience. 

With the landscape picture I was trying to communicate the loss of the respect for nature. I was trying to show how nature had been taken over by society and been made to conform or destroyed if it did not. It was a very sobering picture. However, to me the earthwork pictures had a sense of the beauty and wonder of nature that is still present if we go and look for it. It was about discovering how nature is beautiful and how we can show our appreciation for it. Overall it had a much more hopeful perspective. 

What does the picture reveal about your relationship to Nature/Creation? 

I think this picture reveals the destructive aspect of  not just my relationship but society's relationship to nature. We use nature to meet our own needs without thinking about how it affects it and how we might be able to be better stewards of the resources God has given us. Instead we just consume, not value it as a gift from God. I think this picture helped me to realize that I should look at nature with more respect and try to find ways to show that through how I live. 

This painting by Caspar David Friedrich entitled "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog" reminds me of my picture because it is trying to show dominance over nature. The man is standing on the rocks as if he owns them and everything he can sea. The ironic part about the picture is that he is so much smaller than the sea that he is claiming and it could wash him away with ease.