Pamela Sunday's Structural Frame

Question 1
Look at Plates one and two AND use the Structural Frame to briefly outline ways in which the artist has symbolically given meaning to the forms.

Pamela Sunday uses ideas and influences from nature and science, based on her interpretation of the microscopic world. Portraying there significance through the contemporary structures of her sculptures, displayed through plates one and two. As seen in these plates her sculptures made entirely out of ceramic. Her use of Ceramics emphasises the sculptures earthen elements, and the birth of life from these basic elements. Ultimately the ceramics allow her to maintain full control over the sculptures form and shape. The Sculptures bulge and protrude with glassy angler and rounded shapes
This type of work was given the title Earth Art, as Smithson incorporated the landscape, by making dramatic changes in order to be able to build the sculpture ‘Spiral Jetty’. To create this sculpture he used mud, precipitated salt crystals, rocks, and water stretching in a coil for about 1500ft and 15ft wide. The location of this sculpture was chosen at Rozel, Great Lakes, Utah because it is not easily accessible to the public, this is as to why Robert Smithson chose this location. Also because it was cut off from fresh water in 1959 when a causeway for the South Pacific Railroad was constructed, this caused the water to change to an uncommon red-violet colour colouration. Robert Smithson like the uniqueness of these colours because it exposed how polluted the water had become making it a “sci fi landscape”. By placing the spiral jetty he impasses political statement by using as much natural materials native to the area to create the artwork. Robert Smithson was not only bringing attention to the environmental impact, but also suggested the destructive impact of time and erosion can manipulate the natural world. So only mainly tourists who view this work as they walk it’s length, forcing a measure of time to appreciate the art work. The work can be understood just view it from a high up vantage point, you are required travel it’s journey. From the air the work also take on a alternate message and viewing
His ideas and actions come from landscapes around him, he uses the nature to create sculptures from only the nature that surrounds him. He uses the materials that exist around him, he uses them in such a way these sculptures belong to the natural world. Holding the meaning of spiritual power reflecting his ideas that come from the zen like philosophy that he guides him to have a deep connection with the Earth and all the things that mother earth offer him. Goldsworthy also explores time and the ephemeral existence of objects, and the energy that runs through the landscapes that influence his works, “Movement,change, light, growth and decay are the life blood of nature, the energies I try to tap through my work”. When Andy Goldsworthy explores the ephemeral concept, it means things being transitory, existing only briefly which is what his works demonstrate as he combines the elements of nature which can only last for a temporary period of time, thus increase the extended aesthetic value. The material he has used in the plates shown where he uses sticks, ice snow structure are all going to break down. But this is part of his art that it goes back to earth “nothing is ever lost to the universe”. The time and exhausting effort that it takes goldsworthy to create the natural inspired sculptures is just as important as the finished work itself, each