Because
it is not certain when or where human beings first began
to question the impacts of their behaviour within an environment
we must first recognise that what is important is the questioning
itself, and secondly understand that art in the environment
differs strongly from the fine art that we socially accept
as pure. The Art and the environment elective, for me was
a reminder that not all art works need a frame and further
more re-enforced the belief that the ‘message’ behind
the work does not have to be a visual one but more so because
it has its own environment it holds a stronger ‘A piori’ for
the visitor, i.e. it is art as a visual and spatial reasoning
rather than solely visual. This and more I hope to discuss
in my report of events during the art and the environment
class, in which I constructed an artwork based on my impressions
of Ardmore point and its impact on the visitor.
