Land Art or earth Art

• Land Art emerged in the late 60's early 70's in the USA as a backlash to the commercialisation and industrialisation of the land.
  
• Often Ephemeral and concerned with time.
• An act of protest, inspired by natural processes and the environment.
• Inextricable link between landscape and the artwork.

To appreciate a piece of land art it is thought that you should be in the air to be able to see it at its full potential and to be able to appre

ciate it however this is controversial as it is there for everyone to see not just the wealthy who can 

afford to go to the sky to see it.

Time art isn't a new phenomenon.

Lancelot 'capability' Brown became famous for taking grounds and re-forming them to become more natural than it was in the first place. He 

was well known for adding Meadows , folly's , encircling drives and lakes into the grounds of which he was working on. His grounds have remained in good condition and many have become parks. Here is a photograph of one of his grounds.

It was in 1678 when people began the crop circle phenomena when they used it as a form of protest against land owners. Here is an example of a crop circle.

Many people believe that there is an alien mystique about the crop circles , however man-made or not crop circles prove to be very visual and powerful instillation's. They are also used as a form of advertisement and a way of putting across certain views in a large scale to attract media attention. I find the patterns interesting used in crop circles and the sheer scale of them.

Stonehenge is another form of Land Art , it has been linked with the movement of the sun , as time measures the movement of earth around the sun. It was built at the same time as the pyramids.

I found the Nazca in Peru very interesting , which have been made by the Inca tribe. The Nazca lines are a series of geogliphs located in the Nazca dessert. These designs are very shallow in the ground created by moving the soil and rock on the surface. It is thought that the spiders and birds could be signs of fertility. This area is not accessible by the public only by air transport as it is feared that any disturbance could easily destroy them. 

I like the grid of lines which appears on the image however not as striking as the line of the insect , which cross over this image almost entrapping it. This would look good using layers of stitch .