Polly Morgan - Endless Plains

Endless Plains is Polly Morgan's most recent body of work that includes a whole taxidermy deer, hollowed out and filled with bats. 
This body of work might look grim to some, however it is a reminder to us of the way that life and death works.

As humans it is easy to sometimes be seduced by nature's beauty, thus forgetting its power and control over our lives. In Morgan's body of work we are reminded that nature is not so kind. 
What makes this work disturbing is they way that life is depicted, it is not as if Morgan has frozen time, but more like she has taken control of time, setting up the Tableau of life and death. 

Polly Morgan, The Fall,  - All Visual Arts Gallery London

The Fall is prime example of the the circle of life, the fallen tree might have died, however it gives life back to the animals in the forest. As well as allowing fungi and mosses to grow on the trees's surface. However to complete this circle the fungi is killed and eaten by the birds that land on the fallen tree. Once more the words of Barthes come's to mind once more.

"Death is the harsh victory of the race, if the particular dies for the satisfaction of the universal"

Polly Morgan - All Visual Arts Gallery London

Private Moon by Leonid Tishkov

The Private Moon series is a huge body of work that looks a indoor and outdoor insulations, that illuminate the surroundings. The work its self a a visual poem, explaining the idea of   and thoughts of Chesterton a writer who explained the idea that there is no personal faith, in the same way each person can not have their own private sun or moon to them self's. 
The visual poem tells a story of a man that met the moon her self, and stayed with her for the rest of his life. Each image that you see in its self is another section of the story. 
In the start the moon was hiding from the sun, hidden away in a tunnel, she came to a man house and stayed in his loft, he cared for her and covered her with blankets. 
"Each photograph is a poetic tale, a little poem in its own right.
Therefore each picture is accompanied by my own verse" - Leonid Tishkov. 
The work has been accompanied by seven Haiku's short Japanese poems that in a way sum up the work. Haiku's wirrten by Leong Liew Geok 3 October 2008

Moon at window sill,

Smiling crescent parked outside,

Unwilling to budge 

On flat roof with me

Silent witness of lit rooms:

Unknown company 

Bent over with you

Piggyback-rider,

to gauge—Water below bridge! 

My yoke of white jade,

Sole passenger to ferry

Wherever I row 

Your Brightness on sled

I lug across waves of snow.

Why can’t You float home? 

At this opening

You’ll wait, light at tunnel’s end,

Anticipating 

I’ll come to take you

Home to your usual table ….

Here—eat these apples! 

Stuck on snowy roof

You’re prostrate, an empty stage

I’ll shovel upright 

You’re there, attic moon,

Before I end an antique

Trip to count cobwebs 

Side by side we lie—

Keep your whole self covered, else

I won’t get to sleep!

Layered Drawings - Nobuhiro Nakanishi

Nobuhiro Nakanishi works with photography and sculpture, creating large works that 'float' off the wall. The images a compressed much like the idea of a giant flip book. 

As the audience looks the the work, it begins to blend together creating silhouettes of the landscapes that are printed onto the  Plexiglass acrylic. 

"In a foggy landscape, we no longer see what we are usually able to see - the distance to the traffic light, the silhouette of the trees, the slope of the ground. Silhouettes, distance and horizontal sense all become vague. When we perceive this vagueness, the water inside the retina and skin dissolve outwardly toward the infinite space of the body surface. The landscape continues to flow, withholding us from grasping anything solid. By capturing spatial change and the infinite flow of time, I strive to produce art that create movement between the artwork itself and the viewer's experience of the artwork." -  Nobuhiro Nakanishi  

Sand Art - Andres Amador

Andres Amador creates his work using the beach as his canvas, where by he carves floral patterns into the sand. The work is created in only a few hours before it is last forever to the sea. The beauty of this work is that it is lost to sea, its only by the reproductions through photographs that we can see and appreciate these works.  
What's fascinating about the way that Amador works is that he uses Google Maps to find areas that have large areas of sand. 

The work is crested with the aesthetic quality in mind, each image is unique. What is hard to get across in the images is the actual scale that Amador works. 

                                                                             

The Deception People - Rob Mulholland

Rob Mulholland is an artist that works with sculpture and the environment. The Vestige project looks at our relationship with the landscape, The landscape that Mulholland used for this project is in Scotland. The land was once fields, however after the 1st World War there was a vast need for timber. The area was then plated up with fast growing trees thus creating a vast, lush, green landscape. 

Rob Mulholland - Vestige

'The figures absorb their environment, reflecting in their surface the daily changes of life in the forest. They create a visual notion of non – space. A void as if they are at one moment part of our world and then as they fade into the forest they become an intangible outline.' (Rob Mulholland - http://www.robmulholland.co.uk/#/vestige/4535738995)
The figurs almost reflect the idea of the ghosts of this very landscape, and how no matter where we are we leave out mark, no matter how small. You really have to look at first to be able to see the figures, in some ways your eyes almost reject them. 

Light Sculpture - Rashad Alakbarov

Light is key to making photos, seeing growth and life, but the work of Rashad Alakbarov uses light in a different way. 
He makes sculptures of different materials then arranges them into positions, so that when light is shone at the sculptures it creates shadows, these shadows make up different images on the wall. 

The work is quite incredible and almost impossible to contemplate knowing where to start with knowing how something will look reflected onto a wall. 

The image on the left is made up of different coloured air planes that when light is passed through create this stained glass window effect of a beach on the gallery space. 

Facial Sculpture - Levi Van Veluw

The work of Levi Van Veluw is outstanding, its simply beyond words. The work is both sculpture, photography and insulation. The work is created from self portraits of Van Veluw, where he constructs landscapes onto his face. Other work that he has created in this way is self portraits using light, that sweeps the face in different formations. 

The work is just incredibel, Van Veluw become one 
with the surroundings that he creates that then become 
a part of him. Combining surrialsum with the his world 
of nature and surroundings.