by Adam Buick | Nov 14, 2011 | Land Art, Research Grant
The starting point for this idea comes from my degree in Archaeology and Anthropology. One strong rhetoric within archaeology is that the placing of standing stones, the burial of the dead and building of monuments all has strong associations with the surrounding...
by Adam Buick | Oct 25, 2011 | Earth to Earth, Film & Timelapse, Land Art, Making, Research Grant
Earth to Earth – the beginning… from Adam Buick on Vimeo. Here is a preview of the time lapse film I have been making to document my Land Art project Earth to Earth. Full version coming soon…
by Adam Buick | Oct 23, 2011 | Earth to Earth, Film & Timelapse, Land Art, Research Grant
Seven days of waiting and watching every change in the weather and this is what I found on Sunday morning. 20,000 images and the disintegration of the Jar happened in the dead of night, unable to be seen by the camera. The footage is amazing but what an anticlimax to...
by Adam Buick | Oct 21, 2011 | Earth to Earth, Film & Timelapse, Land Art, Research Grant
What makes ceramics unique as an art form is the transformative process of firing. You make the work and then give it to the fire and hope that during its metamorphosis something beyond your expectation emerges. It is a natural process. No two trees grow the same and...
by Adam Buick | Oct 14, 2011 | Earth to Earth, Film & Timelapse, Land Art, Exhibiting, Research Grant
For the past two months I have been working on the Earth to Earth project. This is part of my Arts Council of Wales research grant. This time I decided to document the weathering of the Jar using Time Lapse Photography. At first I thought this would be straight...
by Adam Buick | Jun 22, 2011 | Local materials, Votive Jar, Research Grant
I have used seaweed in my work for some time, laying it directly onto the surface of pots during firing. For years I have been meaning to test its use as a glaze component. Wood ash is commonly used in glazes as is other organic matter, I have only ever seen one...
