art as a decoration
On my birthday our house is decorated with garlands with many colours. The place for the everyday events has become a special place because of a small addition.
Something like this does Patrick Shearn with Sunset Trace.
He makes use of ribbons with the bright and primary colors of the rainbow. The thick pile of strips are fastened at a line of maybe hundred yard long which is hanging on trees that might be sixty feet tall. I haven't seen a lavish garland like this. It's actually over the top. But Sunset Trace is appropriate at a palm-fringed beach like Laguna Beach.
Two years ago I would be excited by the idea to go to Laguna Beach. Then I liked grand gestures, long-distance travel, extraordinary adventures. In the meantime I make other choices which are entered by climate change. An embellishment on my birthday is enough for me. I'd rather stay at home and Sunset Trace with palm trees is too much for me.
Can art be decoration? With an artworI don't think of an object by one hundred yard long. For me an artwork stands in the living room or on a square. For me an artwork is more than decoration. It's up to the artist to decide what the added value is of an artwork. I'm asking mister Patrick Shearn what the added value is for him.
By Theo, www.artatsite.com
Vertaling
kunstwerk als versiering
Op mijn verjaardag is ons huis versierd met slingers met meerdere kleuren. De plek voor alledaagse gebeurtenissen is een bijzondere plek geworden door een kleine aanvulling.
Zoiets doet Patrick Shearn ook met Sunset Trace.
Hij maakt gebruik van linten de heldere en primaire kleuren van de regenboog. Het dikke pak aan stroken is vast gemaakt aan een sliert van misschien wel honderd meter lang die aan bomen hangt die misschien wel tien meter hoog zijn. Ik heb nog niet eerder zo'n uitbundige slinger gezien. Het is zelfs over de top. Maar Sunset Trace past bij een strand met palmbomen zoals Laguna Beach.
Twee jaar geleden zou ik enthousiast worden bij het idee om naar Laguna Beach te gaan. Toen hield ik nog van grote gebaren, verre reizen, bijzondere avonturen. Maar intussen maak ik andere keuzen die ingegeven zijn door de klimaatverandering. Een versiering op mijn verjaard is voor mij voldoende. Ik blijf liever thuis en Sunset Trace met palmbomen is teveel voor mij.
Kan een kunstwerk versiering zijn? Bij een kunstwerk denk ik niet aan een object van honderd meter lang. Voor mij staat een kunstwerk in een woonkamer of op een plein. Voor mij is een kunstwerk méér dan versiering. Het is aan de kunstenaar om te bepalen wat de méérwaarde van een kunstwerk is. Ik vraag de heer Patrick Shearn wat meerwaarde is voor hem.
Door Theo, www.artatsite.com
www.poetickinetics.com:
Laguna Art Museum presents Sunset Trace, an outdoor art installation on display from November 5 through November 15, 2020.
In collaboration with the City of Laguna Beach, the museum has commissioned the site-specific work of art for Art & Nature. The multicolored kinetic sculpture will be installed off Main Beach over Main Beach Park. Entitled Sunset Trace, it will seamlessly weave through the palm trees along the shoreline, traversing sections of the walkways and cliffs between the gazebo and Main Beach in a stunning, windburn display. Sunset Trace is an outdoor art installation on view from November 5 through November 15, 2020.
Inspired by the graceful murmuration of birds flocking together, or schools of fish coalescing and moving simultaneously, Patrick Shearn's signature Skynet Series is a constant reminder of nature moving around us. Suspended using transparent monofilament netting and rigged inconspicuously, the dulating forms appear to levitate in midair. Finessed by the unique wind patterns of each site, these outdoor art pieces reveal unseen natural wind elements in unusual, dramatic ways.
Art & Nature serves a number of purposes: to provide a festival of art and ideas for the community; to inspire artists; to find and develop connections between art and science; to raise awareness of environmental issues; and to celebrate Laguna Beach as a center for the appreciation of art and nature. The museum's executive director, Malcolm Warner, explains why Laguna Art Museum is the ideal organization to conceive, develop, and present the popular program.
Patrick Shearn: 'The theme of Art & Nature speaks particularly to the identity of Laguna Beach, which for over a hundred years has been a center for art, the appreciation of nature, and environmental awareness. In 1929, when the Laguna Beach Art Association built an art gallery to show and sell their work, they chose a commanding location on the coastline close the natural wonders they loved to paint. The present museum occupies the same site. There could be no more appropriate venue in which to explore the art-nature connection.'
www.stunewslaguna.com:
Patrick Shearn is an LA-based artist specializing in larger-than-life, immersive public art installations. The artist's signature kinetic sculptures, called Skynets, earned him international renown after the debut of Liquid Shard enamored the city of Los Angeles. The installation transformed an underused public square in the heart of downtown into a bustling destination overnight.
Shearn has since brought Skynet installations to various locations in the U.S. and abroad where viewers are invariably compelled to slow down and take time to follow the undulating movement of the artworks, which appear to hang in thin air.
Shearn's expertise in animatronics, robotics and visual effects ' gleaned from a 30-year tenure in the film industry as a creature maker and visual effects supervisor ' hasaction to a prolific career as creative director for his studio Poetic Kinetics.
Under Shearn's guiding vision, Poetic Kinetics has designed, fabricated, and implemented a wide range of projects that encourage audience participation ' from interactive projection mapping and pyrotechnics to enormous mobile sculptures. Notably, Poetic Kinetics' projects both engage the immediate public through interactivity and reach viral notoriety on social media.
www.abc7.com:
Malcolm Warner the museum's executive director: 'The theme of Art & Nature speaks particularly to the identity of Laguna Beach, which for over a hundred years has been a center for art, the appreciation of nature, and environmental awareness'.
www.latimes.com:
The Los Angeles-based artist Patrick Shearn of Poetic Kinetics: 'The thing is it's so ultra-lightweight that the smallest breeze can get individual streamers dancing,' Shearn explained, 'and then when the wind picks up, depending on the direction of the win really see and experience the sort of larger symphonic motions of the wind at large, how it wraps around the buildings and passes through the trees. ... You really become aware of sort of how much we're not aware of, or how much we don't really experience that's hidden from us visu
On my birthday our house is decorated with garlands with many colours. The place for the everyday events has become a special place because of a small addition.
Something like this does Patrick Shearn with Sunset Trace.
He makes use of ribbons with the bright and primary colors of the rainbow. The thick pile of strips are fastened at a line of maybe hundred yard long which is hanging on trees that might be sixty feet tall. I haven't seen a lavish garland like this. It's actually over the top. But Sunset Trace is appropriate at a palm-fringed beach like Laguna Beach.
Two years ago I would be excited by the idea to go to Laguna Beach. Then I liked grand gestures, long-distance travel, extraordinary adventures. In the meantime I make other choices which are entered by climate change. An embellishment on my birthday is enough for me. I'd rather stay at home and Sunset Trace with palm trees is too much for me.
Can art be decoration? With an artworI don't think of an object by one hundred yard long. For me an artwork stands in the living room or on a square. For me an artwork is more than decoration. It's up to the artist to decide what the added value is of an artwork. I'm asking mister Patrick Shearn what the added value is for him.
By Theo, www.artatsite.com
Vertaling
kunstwerk als versiering
Op mijn verjaardag is ons huis versierd met slingers met meerdere kleuren. De plek voor alledaagse gebeurtenissen is een bijzondere plek geworden door een kleine aanvulling.
Zoiets doet Patrick Shearn ook met Sunset Trace.
Hij maakt gebruik van linten de heldere en primaire kleuren van de regenboog. Het dikke pak aan stroken is vast gemaakt aan een sliert van misschien wel honderd meter lang die aan bomen hangt die misschien wel tien meter hoog zijn. Ik heb nog niet eerder zo'n uitbundige slinger gezien. Het is zelfs over de top. Maar Sunset Trace past bij een strand met palmbomen zoals Laguna Beach.
Twee jaar geleden zou ik enthousiast worden bij het idee om naar Laguna Beach te gaan. Toen hield ik nog van grote gebaren, verre reizen, bijzondere avonturen. Maar intussen maak ik andere keuzen die ingegeven zijn door de klimaatverandering. Een versiering op mijn verjaard is voor mij voldoende. Ik blijf liever thuis en Sunset Trace met palmbomen is teveel voor mij.
Kan een kunstwerk versiering zijn? Bij een kunstwerk denk ik niet aan een object van honderd meter lang. Voor mij staat een kunstwerk in een woonkamer of op een plein. Voor mij is een kunstwerk méér dan versiering. Het is aan de kunstenaar om te bepalen wat de méérwaarde van een kunstwerk is. Ik vraag de heer Patrick Shearn wat meerwaarde is voor hem.
Door Theo, www.artatsite.com
www.poetickinetics.com:
Laguna Art Museum presents Sunset Trace, an outdoor art installation on display from November 5 through November 15, 2020.
In collaboration with the City of Laguna Beach, the museum has commissioned the site-specific work of art for Art & Nature. The multicolored kinetic sculpture will be installed off Main Beach over Main Beach Park. Entitled Sunset Trace, it will seamlessly weave through the palm trees along the shoreline, traversing sections of the walkways and cliffs between the gazebo and Main Beach in a stunning, windburn display. Sunset Trace is an outdoor art installation on view from November 5 through November 15, 2020.
Inspired by the graceful murmuration of birds flocking together, or schools of fish coalescing and moving simultaneously, Patrick Shearn's signature Skynet Series is a constant reminder of nature moving around us. Suspended using transparent monofilament netting and rigged inconspicuously, the dulating forms appear to levitate in midair. Finessed by the unique wind patterns of each site, these outdoor art pieces reveal unseen natural wind elements in unusual, dramatic ways.
Art & Nature serves a number of purposes: to provide a festival of art and ideas for the community; to inspire artists; to find and develop connections between art and science; to raise awareness of environmental issues; and to celebrate Laguna Beach as a center for the appreciation of art and nature. The museum's executive director, Malcolm Warner, explains why Laguna Art Museum is the ideal organization to conceive, develop, and present the popular program.
Patrick Shearn: 'The theme of Art & Nature speaks particularly to the identity of Laguna Beach, which for over a hundred years has been a center for art, the appreciation of nature, and environmental awareness. In 1929, when the Laguna Beach Art Association built an art gallery to show and sell their work, they chose a commanding location on the coastline close the natural wonders they loved to paint. The present museum occupies the same site. There could be no more appropriate venue in which to explore the art-nature connection.'
www.stunewslaguna.com:
Patrick Shearn is an LA-based artist specializing in larger-than-life, immersive public art installations. The artist's signature kinetic sculptures, called Skynets, earned him international renown after the debut of Liquid Shard enamored the city of Los Angeles. The installation transformed an underused public square in the heart of downtown into a bustling destination overnight.
Shearn has since brought Skynet installations to various locations in the U.S. and abroad where viewers are invariably compelled to slow down and take time to follow the undulating movement of the artworks, which appear to hang in thin air.
Shearn's expertise in animatronics, robotics and visual effects ' gleaned from a 30-year tenure in the film industry as a creature maker and visual effects supervisor ' hasaction to a prolific career as creative director for his studio Poetic Kinetics.
Under Shearn's guiding vision, Poetic Kinetics has designed, fabricated, and implemented a wide range of projects that encourage audience participation ' from interactive projection mapping and pyrotechnics to enormous mobile sculptures. Notably, Poetic Kinetics' projects both engage the immediate public through interactivity and reach viral notoriety on social media.
www.abc7.com:
Malcolm Warner the museum's executive director: 'The theme of Art & Nature speaks particularly to the identity of Laguna Beach, which for over a hundred years has been a center for art, the appreciation of nature, and environmental awareness'.
www.latimes.com:
The Los Angeles-based artist Patrick Shearn of Poetic Kinetics: 'The thing is it's so ultra-lightweight that the smallest breeze can get individual streamers dancing,' Shearn explained, 'and then when the wind picks up, depending on the direction of the win really see and experience the sort of larger symphonic motions of the wind at large, how it wraps around the buildings and passes through the trees. ... You really become aware of sort of how much we're not aware of, or how much we don't really experience that's hidden from us visu