One of the inspiration for our work is Robert Howsare. There is a work that he created where the machine holds onto a pencil, which goes around in the same way, but in different places. This immediately caught our eyes and we wanted to start off our idea with his work as a starting point. You can see how our work was influenced by him, as the art machine that we made does a similar thing. A different between Howsare and our work is that, our one is more messy, as we used leaves and paint, not pencil.
As we were working on our sand project, an artist named Yuki Kawae had a similar style to us. Yuki Kawae is a well known sand garden artist. He uses small sand boxes and creates minimal designs drawn onto the surface. One artwork that we have is extremely similar to Kawae’s work. We both used a rake to form circles onto the sand. But the difference between Kawae and Greenery Machinery’s work is that, we used plants to create the circles, but he used a proper lake.
Since we wanted to incorporate nature within our art, we used parts of the fern leaves to act as a rake. This was pretty successful for us. But i wished that the hand was much stronger so we can add more leaves, which will create more circles, like Kawae’s work.