http://www.pandrawilliams.com Environmental Artist Pandra Williams Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:22:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Directions to the Florence Kopleff Recital Hall From the North: Take I-85/75 South to the Courtland Street exit (Exit 249A); turn right on Edgewood Avenue; go one block ( Hurt Park is on the left); turn left onto Gilmer Street (a one-way street). The Florence Kopleff Recital Hall is located on ... http://www.pandrawilliams.com/solstice-in-the-garden-march-19th/ The link below will take you to a slide show of the Tumulus construction on site at Eyedrum Gallery in Atlanta, GA. http://www.pandrawilliams.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=11&pid=223&slideshow=2000 http://www.pandrawilliams.com/building-urban-tumulus/ Kids are great. They don't ask you what art is- they tell you: "It's a cave." "It's a fort. " "It's a castle." "It's a house." "The lights are snakes. "(?? very interesting...) Adult comments: " What did you mean by doing that, by building the Tumulus?" "Where can I get some adobe bricks?" "Can I have your ... http://www.pandrawilliams.com/urban-earth-faq-fmc/ Jessica Marshall E., Michael and I made 12,500 pounds of adobe bricks for the Urban Tumulus installation this past July. Earth, sand, straw, water. Each air-dried brick measures 5 inches by 10 inches by 16 inches, and weighs 50 pounds. I don't know how heavy they were when ... http://www.pandrawilliams.com/11000-pounds-out-of-12500-pounds/ Wrapped in a sweeping coat of compost, Urban Tumulus is a process in existence.  Its mass is substantial and gives it a presence that wants embracing.  Drawn to the internal womb I find it welcoming and comforting.  Once inside it is safe and hard to leave but never the least ... http://www.pandrawilliams.com/jessica-marshall-es-perspective/ Soil.  The Urban Tumulus is about soil.  Soil is under our feet.  We depend upon it, we ignore it, we don't see it.  All of our food comes from soil.  All of us return to soil.  The soil of Urban Tumulus addresses the viewer. http://www.pandrawilliams.com/urban-tumulus/ My installation work is an intercession of the corporeal. A Natural History diorama creates a loss of viewer interaction. Nature is preserved and glassed in. The viewer is only that: a bystander, not a participant. In this position, the viewer cannot catch the glassed ... http://www.pandrawilliams.com/installation-art-intercession-of-the-corporeal-ruminations/ Grotesque: Beauty Disgusting! For some people, body humor is not considered to be in the realm of appropriate or polite behavior. The carnivale and humor of the grotesque in medieval Europe was considered "low," of the earth, of genitals, bowels, sex, defecation and death. (Isack, pp 19-23) In this unofficial ... http://www.pandrawilliams.com/grotesquebeauty/