Donald Bracken ART Habens
3.5ft relations ... Would you say that it ' s more of an intuitive or a systematic process ?
This quite often is not a conscious process , but it occurs through the process of making art , as in the piece Vestiges of Occupation . I had been collecting beaver sticks for several years because I ’ ve always been fascinated by beavers — they are amazing engineers and often create beautiful estuaries . The sticks sometimes look like Giacometti sculptures with the little heads and truncated arms . One rainy day I was sitting in my car drawing a large root that was sitting on top a destroyed or deconstructed beaver hut . The root interested me , so I dug it out and took it to my studio and suspended it from a high beam . After living with this flying root for a while , I decided I should make a monument to the beaver , which was killed because , although it had created an estuary for birds and fish , it had also plugged up a drainage culvert and chewed on somebody ’ s tree , which was inconvenient for its human neighbors . So I decided to suspend the sticks from the defunct former hut , using almost invisible fishing line
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