The Streampath
Artists: Gilles Bruni and Marc Babarit
Artists: Gilles Bruni and Marc Babarit
What:
This installation is part of the Nature Based Sculpture Program at the South Carolina Botanical Gardens, as part of Clemson University. The inspiring sculpture, constructed of local rocks, twigs, and small trees, adds a sense of space to the natural forested area. Bruni and Babarit, each chose his own side of the stream to enhance. Thus, the result of their collaboration is a "light" side and a "shadow" side of the stream path.
The artists' intent is that, after arriving at the sculpture, visitors will walk or wade down the steam bed in between the two steep embankments to gain a true appreciation and sense of being in the sculptural area. A visitor's perception of scale is greatly altered as he or she compares viewing the sculpture from up on the hill looking downward to actually becoming one with the work while travelling the streambed and looking up at it. While down in "The Stream Path," visitors can truly appreciate the feeling of being in a canyon and are dwarfed by the hovering sculpted banks of the stream.
So What
The piece accentuates the erosion and carving in dry stream bed, over time.
Use of localized indigenous materials
The architectural form in the forest—constrast of human and nature but also showing coexistence between the two
Scale of being in the art or viewing from outside—multiple experiences
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/bruni.babarit/indexgb.htm
This installation is part of the Nature Based Sculpture Program at the South Carolina Botanical Gardens, as part of Clemson University. The inspiring sculpture, constructed of local rocks, twigs, and small trees, adds a sense of space to the natural forested area. Bruni and Babarit, each chose his own side of the stream to enhance. Thus, the result of their collaboration is a "light" side and a "shadow" side of the stream path.
The artists' intent is that, after arriving at the sculpture, visitors will walk or wade down the steam bed in between the two steep embankments to gain a true appreciation and sense of being in the sculptural area. A visitor's perception of scale is greatly altered as he or she compares viewing the sculpture from up on the hill looking downward to actually becoming one with the work while travelling the streambed and looking up at it. While down in "The Stream Path," visitors can truly appreciate the feeling of being in a canyon and are dwarfed by the hovering sculpted banks of the stream.
So What
The piece accentuates the erosion and carving in dry stream bed, over time.
Use of localized indigenous materials
The architectural form in the forest—constrast of human and nature but also showing coexistence between the two
Scale of being in the art or viewing from outside—multiple experiences
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/bruni.babarit/indexgb.htm
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