Tuesday, September 16, 2008

1st Still Life




Land Art


Not quite sure what this is supposed to be, but this charming equalateral triangle occupies one of the courtyards at school; a bit of Michael Heizer land art in miniature. During inservice at the beginning of the year some students were carefully filling it with a layer of garden soil and then tamping the soil down with the backs of their shovels. That same courtyard is also occupied by a cadre of Miscanthus grasses placed in such random locations that they, coupled with the triangular trench, act as signifiers in some obscure text on the symbolic order of the adolescent mind.