Is this allowed?
With Ash Dome living trees are turned into an artwork. What image of nature would the artist have? We do understand that a tree is cut in the shape of a bird. The taste is not up for discussion, isn't it? With this bird there is nearly nothing left of the authentic of the tree. With this the artist is allowed to few the tree as something to manipulate.
We also do understand that we restore or simulate the original condition of the tree and its surroundings.
With Ash Dome, the lower half of the trunk is manipulated, and the upper part of the tree has is original form. The artist takes a middle position with partly an artificial and partly a natural form of the tree.
This artwork is allowed of course. This artwork has been created in the Century of the Human. Then it could be said that the Ash Dome makes us happy because the trees are dancing in a circle.
Recently we are in the Era of Nature and more and more critical sounds are heard against the manipulation of nature for the benefit of the human being. I'm curious to know what we say ten years from now about Ash Dome by David Nash.
By Theo, www.artatsite.com
Vertaling
Mag dit?
Bij Ash Dome worden levende bomen veranderd in een kunstwerk. Welk idee over de natuur zou een kunstenaar hierbij hebben? Wij snappen het als een boom wordt gesnoeid in de vorm van een vogeltje. Over smaak valt niet te twisten, nietwaar? Bij dit vogeltje blijft er bijna niets meer authentiek aan de boom. Hierbij mag de kunstenaar de boom als een object zien, dat gemanipuleerd mag worden.
Wij snappen het ook als de natuurlijke toestand van de boom en diens omgeving wordt hersteld of wordt nagebootst.
Bij Ash Dome is de onderste helft van de stam gemanipuleerd en is het hoger gelegen deel vrij gelaten. De kunstenaar neemt een middenpositie in met deels een kunstmatige en deels een natuurlijke vorm van de boom.
Natuurlijk mag dit kunstwerk. Dit kunstwerk is gemaakt in de Eeuw van de Mens. Toen kon nog gezegd worden dat Ash Dome ons blij maakt omdat bomen dansen in een kring.
Sinds kort is de Eeuw van de Natuur begonnen en klinken er steeds meer kritische geluiden over een manipuleren van de natuur vanwege het voordeel van de mens. Ik ben benieuwd wat wij over tien jaar zeggen over Ash Dome van David Nash.
Door Theo, www.artatsite.com
www.medium.com:
Secluded in an area of private woodland is Cae n y Coed , where a circle of 22 Ash trees stand. They have been growing under the gentle guidance of artist David Nash for more than 40 years. Over the decades he has gradually manipulated their growth so they have bent in towards each other in a vortex that has now met to form a living dome.
www.thisiscolossal.com:
In 1977, sculptor David Nash cleared an area of land near his home in Wales where he trained a circle of 22 ash trees to grow in a vortex-like shape for an artwork titled Ash Dome. Almost 40 years later, the trees still grow today. The artist has long worked with wood and natural elements in his art practice, often incorporating live trees or even animals into pieces. The exact site of Ash Dome in the Snowdonia region of northwest Wales is a closely guarded secret.
www.sculpture.org:
When I first planted the ring of trees for Ash Dome, the Cold War was still a threat. There was serious economic gloom, very high unemployment in our country, and nuclear war was a real possibility. We were killing the planet, which we still are because of greed. In Britain, our governments were changing quickly, so we had very short-term political and economic policies. To make a gesture by planting something for the 21st century, which was what Ash Dome was about, was a long-term commitment, an act of faith. I did not know what I was letting myself in for.
www.artnet.com:
Nash s original idea in the late 1970s was to create a conceptual work that would grow throughout the 21st century. A lot of Land Art was gestures out in the land. I wanted to extend that commitment, he says. It was also a reaction to the politics of the day. In the 70s, policies were incredibly short term, Labour and Conservatives, and the environmental movement was looking much longer term, and so was I. I was looking to make a sculpture outside that was genuinely of its place. If it grew there it is certainly of it. It was growing and had a seasonal aspect, www.artnet.com:
The location of Ash Dome in north Wales is a secret but as part of BBC Radio 3 s week devoted to music inspired by forests, the artist took the broadcaster Ian Skelly to the site and explained that he learned how to train the trees to form a vortex-shaped canopy through trial and error. (The first trees he planted were eaten by sheep.) www.artnet.com:
The British sculptor David Nash s Ash Dome is dying. The remarkable work of Land Art, which he planted as a young artist at a secret location deep in the Welsh countryside more than 40 years ago, was meant to outlive him. Now in his 70s and a Royal Academician, Nash is disappointed but accepting that disease will kill the ring of 22 ash trees that he planted in 1977. People have told me all sort of remedies for ash dieback but the whole thing would become too precious, Nash says. It s a work depending on natural forces, so ash dieback is a natural force. I have to accept that as part of the original concept. www.artnet.com:
He calls ash dieback a tragedy. The result is almost always fatal once a tree is affected by the fungus responsible. Ash is such a resilient tree, he says. It will come back, but not in our lifetime. He is also looking on the positive side about Ash Dome. I ve been drawing it and I will continue to draw it in its dying years, he says. I didn t think I d lose it in my lifetime. www.wikipedia.org:
David John Nash, OBE RA (born 14 November 1945) is a British sculptor based in Blaenau Ffestiniog (Wales). Nash has worked worldwide with wood, trees and the natural environment.
David Nash is known for works in wood and shaping living trees. His large wood sculptures are sometimes carved or partially burned to produce blackening. His main tools for these sculptures are a chainsaw and an axe to carve the wood and a blowtorch to char the wood. Nash also makes land art, of which the best known is Wooden Boulder, begun in 1978. This work involves the journey of a large wooden sphere from a Welsh mountainside to the Atlantic Ocean. Wooden Boulder is a large wooden sphere carved by Nash in the North Wales landscape and left there to weather. Over the years, the boulder has slipped, rolled and sometime been pushed through the landscape following the course of streams and rivers until finally it was last seen in the estuary of the river Dwyryd. It was thought to have been washed out to sea but, after being missing for over five years, the boulder reappeared in June 2009. Indications are that it had been buried in sand in the estuary. The sculptor had no idea of its location, and enjoys the notion that wood which grew out of the land will finally return to it. The boulder was last seen in 2015.
Nash also makes sculptures which stay in the landscape. For example, Ash Dome is a ring of ash trees he planted in 1977 and trained to form a domed shape. The dome is sited at a secret location somewhere in Snowdonia and whenever it is filmed, crews are taken there by a circuitous route to guard its security.
With Ash Dome living trees are turned into an artwork. What image of nature would the artist have? We do understand that a tree is cut in the shape of a bird. The taste is not up for discussion, isn't it? With this bird there is nearly nothing left of the authentic of the tree. With this the artist is allowed to few the tree as something to manipulate.
We also do understand that we restore or simulate the original condition of the tree and its surroundings.
With Ash Dome, the lower half of the trunk is manipulated, and the upper part of the tree has is original form. The artist takes a middle position with partly an artificial and partly a natural form of the tree.
This artwork is allowed of course. This artwork has been created in the Century of the Human. Then it could be said that the Ash Dome makes us happy because the trees are dancing in a circle.
Recently we are in the Era of Nature and more and more critical sounds are heard against the manipulation of nature for the benefit of the human being. I'm curious to know what we say ten years from now about Ash Dome by David Nash.
By Theo, www.artatsite.com
Vertaling
Mag dit?
Bij Ash Dome worden levende bomen veranderd in een kunstwerk. Welk idee over de natuur zou een kunstenaar hierbij hebben? Wij snappen het als een boom wordt gesnoeid in de vorm van een vogeltje. Over smaak valt niet te twisten, nietwaar? Bij dit vogeltje blijft er bijna niets meer authentiek aan de boom. Hierbij mag de kunstenaar de boom als een object zien, dat gemanipuleerd mag worden.
Wij snappen het ook als de natuurlijke toestand van de boom en diens omgeving wordt hersteld of wordt nagebootst.
Bij Ash Dome is de onderste helft van de stam gemanipuleerd en is het hoger gelegen deel vrij gelaten. De kunstenaar neemt een middenpositie in met deels een kunstmatige en deels een natuurlijke vorm van de boom.
Natuurlijk mag dit kunstwerk. Dit kunstwerk is gemaakt in de Eeuw van de Mens. Toen kon nog gezegd worden dat Ash Dome ons blij maakt omdat bomen dansen in een kring.
Sinds kort is de Eeuw van de Natuur begonnen en klinken er steeds meer kritische geluiden over een manipuleren van de natuur vanwege het voordeel van de mens. Ik ben benieuwd wat wij over tien jaar zeggen over Ash Dome van David Nash.
Door Theo, www.artatsite.com
www.medium.com:
Secluded in an area of private woodland is Cae n y Coed , where a circle of 22 Ash trees stand. They have been growing under the gentle guidance of artist David Nash for more than 40 years. Over the decades he has gradually manipulated their growth so they have bent in towards each other in a vortex that has now met to form a living dome.
www.thisiscolossal.com:
In 1977, sculptor David Nash cleared an area of land near his home in Wales where he trained a circle of 22 ash trees to grow in a vortex-like shape for an artwork titled Ash Dome. Almost 40 years later, the trees still grow today. The artist has long worked with wood and natural elements in his art practice, often incorporating live trees or even animals into pieces. The exact site of Ash Dome in the Snowdonia region of northwest Wales is a closely guarded secret.
www.sculpture.org:
When I first planted the ring of trees for Ash Dome, the Cold War was still a threat. There was serious economic gloom, very high unemployment in our country, and nuclear war was a real possibility. We were killing the planet, which we still are because of greed. In Britain, our governments were changing quickly, so we had very short-term political and economic policies. To make a gesture by planting something for the 21st century, which was what Ash Dome was about, was a long-term commitment, an act of faith. I did not know what I was letting myself in for.
www.artnet.com:
Nash s original idea in the late 1970s was to create a conceptual work that would grow throughout the 21st century. A lot of Land Art was gestures out in the land. I wanted to extend that commitment, he says. It was also a reaction to the politics of the day. In the 70s, policies were incredibly short term, Labour and Conservatives, and the environmental movement was looking much longer term, and so was I. I was looking to make a sculpture outside that was genuinely of its place. If it grew there it is certainly of it. It was growing and had a seasonal aspect, www.artnet.com:
The location of Ash Dome in north Wales is a secret but as part of BBC Radio 3 s week devoted to music inspired by forests, the artist took the broadcaster Ian Skelly to the site and explained that he learned how to train the trees to form a vortex-shaped canopy through trial and error. (The first trees he planted were eaten by sheep.) www.artnet.com:
The British sculptor David Nash s Ash Dome is dying. The remarkable work of Land Art, which he planted as a young artist at a secret location deep in the Welsh countryside more than 40 years ago, was meant to outlive him. Now in his 70s and a Royal Academician, Nash is disappointed but accepting that disease will kill the ring of 22 ash trees that he planted in 1977. People have told me all sort of remedies for ash dieback but the whole thing would become too precious, Nash says. It s a work depending on natural forces, so ash dieback is a natural force. I have to accept that as part of the original concept. www.artnet.com:
He calls ash dieback a tragedy. The result is almost always fatal once a tree is affected by the fungus responsible. Ash is such a resilient tree, he says. It will come back, but not in our lifetime. He is also looking on the positive side about Ash Dome. I ve been drawing it and I will continue to draw it in its dying years, he says. I didn t think I d lose it in my lifetime. www.wikipedia.org:
David John Nash, OBE RA (born 14 November 1945) is a British sculptor based in Blaenau Ffestiniog (Wales). Nash has worked worldwide with wood, trees and the natural environment.
David Nash is known for works in wood and shaping living trees. His large wood sculptures are sometimes carved or partially burned to produce blackening. His main tools for these sculptures are a chainsaw and an axe to carve the wood and a blowtorch to char the wood. Nash also makes land art, of which the best known is Wooden Boulder, begun in 1978. This work involves the journey of a large wooden sphere from a Welsh mountainside to the Atlantic Ocean. Wooden Boulder is a large wooden sphere carved by Nash in the North Wales landscape and left there to weather. Over the years, the boulder has slipped, rolled and sometime been pushed through the landscape following the course of streams and rivers until finally it was last seen in the estuary of the river Dwyryd. It was thought to have been washed out to sea but, after being missing for over five years, the boulder reappeared in June 2009. Indications are that it had been buried in sand in the estuary. The sculptor had no idea of its location, and enjoys the notion that wood which grew out of the land will finally return to it. The boulder was last seen in 2015.
Nash also makes sculptures which stay in the landscape. For example, Ash Dome is a ring of ash trees he planted in 1977 and trained to form a domed shape. The dome is sited at a secret location somewhere in Snowdonia and whenever it is filmed, crews are taken there by a circuitous route to guard its security.