Artist’s Note: Three Paintings makes use of the natural environment and elements as material. It reveals, obscures, and re-positions our experience in space.
Iris Bechtol’s works interested me as they incorporate and enhance aspects of the sites they are made on. For example, by cutting holes in the sheet, she has focused our attention onto the texture and colours of the hedge that we would’ve have otherwise disregarded. Framed in this way the intricacies of the individual leaves stand out, catching our eyes.
I am interested in displaying colours, textures and shapes found in nature, in a way that they become more noticeable and take on a different affect from their natural state. I want to see how the viewers eyes can be drawn to something they would otherwise miss in their environments with my site sculpture.
https://www.cnlprojects.org/artinplace2#/art-in-place-bechtol/