Among the Sierras with Woodpecker
2005.Valerie Hegarty is interested in ideas of American landscapes and the living changes that art goes through when representing this. Interested in the idea of manifest destiny. In the above piece, she pegs the destruction of this wooded landscape to a woodpecker, and the damage spreads across the piece and into the floor, wall, and ceiling of the gallery. This is a brilliant interpretation of a current American landscape.
This concept of early American landscape that was left out in the landscape and nature adjusted the piece. These ideas of change and decay are relevant through use of foam core and various technique.
Listen to her talk about her piece:
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