Greenmuseum Artists

Something intriguing about the Greenmuseum artist, Jim Denevan--he knows his tools very well since he works or plays on them as a surfer/artist. He does large scale sand drawings that almost pass as crop circles. He improvises his works "on the spot," and he utilizes the structure of geometry to give scale to his drawings. "When I'm doing a drawing, I'm personifying the place that is empty." He says it's ephemeral, and that's the beauty of it.

That's the beauty of anything, really, isn't it? Music, at its highest aesthetic quality, is known once the listener grasps that the note is clear only to fade away moments later, thus marking the note at highest value at that point. The transience of an object sometimes marks its aesthetic quality.

Jim Denevan uses anything from a stick to a car to get his drawings down on sand/earth/ice.

Another interesting artist is Albert Flynn DeSilver. He is dubbed a writer and a visual artist. He utilizes both to make a point, while drawing on slides or photographs, or even on the subject in question (i.e. sand, etcetera). His work "calls attention to the simple elegance and genius of the natural world if we only take the time to look." What a beautiful idea. As an artist, our "job" so to speak is to "see" things differently. Here's how DeSilver documents these concepts:

Here is his "Two Foot Water Draw," where the ocean ran over his feet and he took pictures of the lines the water left behind when he drew his feet away. Clever. He says, participating with nature in drawings" is where it's at. ;)

What makes art unique is the intent... the contextualization, if you will, of the artwork. And, the drive of the artist selling the idea.