Land art or Earth art is an art movement in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked.Sculptures are not placed in the landscape; rather, the landscape is the means of their creation. Many are ephemeral in nature and now only exist as video recordings or photographic documents. Geoglyphs are an ancient form of land art; perhaps the most famous are the Nazca lines (right). Our experiments began in 2010, with abstracts cut from fields in Nova Scotia. Our next project, when the weather is suitable, is to create a large scale image using snow. We plan to record these ephemeral pieces using kite aerial photography techniques.
The Nazca Lines are a series of ancient geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru.
Scholars believe the Nazca Lines were created by the Nazca culture between 400 and 650 AD. The hundreds of individual figures range in complexity from simple lines to stylized hummingbirds, spiders, monkeys, fish, sharks or orcas, llamas, and lizards.
Abstract geoglyph created in Shinimicas, Nova Scotia, 2010.