Fourth session - Nature induced marks

Fourth session - 

Nature induced marks

In this session we have learnt about the nature induced marks, about how nature makes its mark on things, without any human interaction. For this, we had a session in the park, where we have set up a few projects. 

The first one involved hanging some sort of drawing media in a tree, and use the energy of the wind to create art. I have chosen an oil bar and a soft pastel, I have hung them with string from a tree and with a large piece of paper underneath, I have left it at work for around an hour and a half. This is what happened:

This was my set up, with 2 oil bars tied from a tree, with paper underneath,  clipped on my drawing board.

This was the final result. Of course, the sun wasn't created by the wind moving my oil bars, but it seem s that some happy people walking by, felt they had to contribute. So my final piece has got a smiley sun in it as well. :-)

Meanwhile, while this was happening, I have used a sponge dipped in Indian ink and attached to a piece of string to do some more drawing. I have held the sponge in my hand hanging by the piece of string and let it move back and forth on a paper underneath under the force of the wind.

This was my first attempt, of a sponge dipped in Indian ink and attached to string. This device was held in my hand and left to move back and forth with the wind

For the second attempt, I have left the string a little bit longer, so some of the marks were made by the string, while others were made by the sponge.

As the third project that day, I have monitored the movement of the sun through the shadow created by a tree nearby. I have covered the shadow one of the branches was creating on the grass, with twigs and followed it every 5 minutes. The experiment started at 3.15pm and ended at 3.45pm. It was amazing to see how quickly the shadow was moving. Here are some photos of this experiment.

3.20pm.  2 lines created 5 minutes apart from eachother

3.30pm.  I have already got five lines after only 20 minutes (each line represents 5 minutes of sun/shadow moving). 

3.35pm. 5 lines. It was amazing to see how quick the shadow was moving at that time of the day.

3.40pm.   This was the last photo I have taken as after this, the sun went in and the lines were not visible anymore. However, it is very interesting to see that the distance between the last two lines is bigger than the previous ones, meaning the sun was moving faster.