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“The Visual Science of Living Aesthetics found in Coastal Erosion”.

Posted by Andrew Brott on 6/16/2006

In Louisiana, we loose a football field of wetlands every 38 minutes, or 24 square miles/year. Every 2 miles of wetlands, decreases hurricane storm surge by 1/2 foot. Do the math! Below are my research and plans for an exhibition that would draw attention to our dangerous plight called: “The Visual Science of Living Aesthetics found in Coastal Erosion”. This show would continue my development of new mixed media art forms, and tell our story from three viewpoints:
1. Science- as depicted in a collection of large-scale “carved photography” which combines textured glass plates with paper prints, to make sculptural wall hangings of satellite imagery.
2. People- viewers will walk between rows of freestanding “glass sea oats” ranging in size up to 80” tall.
3. Commerce- as depicted in large suspended glass “shrimpnets”.
Fine art can be a power tool to raise awareness to the importance of ALL of our coastal wetlands. Have a budget/plans ready, but need the $ to make it... AB 11-07

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Sea Grass-Scale 583 x 768 px (129 KB) 0 Comments		Coastal Louisia "You’re only as good as your research"; these first three images show my research, and next three directly below show my results, and the three major Components to my show. 280 x 175 px (19 KB) 0 Comments
Fort Morgan Sea My wife Kellie and I spend one week a year in Fort Morgan Alabama, and are documenting this tiny sliver of land on the eastern edge of Mobile Bay battle to survive from being washed into the Gulf of Mexico. 455 x 600 px (70 KB) 0 Comments	Shrimp Boat Tra My other research imagery comes from Grande Isle La, only 35 nautical miles due south of my New Orleans home, but a 3 hour drive by car. 14 years ago you could drive your car out on this Barrier Island's Beaches, which are now in the Gulf of Mexico… 1024 x 611 px (86 KB) 0 Comments	Component #1- S Above, I am with Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco and Bloomberg Chairmen Less Fetwick, as one of my River Delta “carved photos” was donated to NYC in Oct. 06. 448 x 299 px (37 KB) 0 Comments
Component #2- P Most, if not all of my work is experimental, and I have developed techniques to make these Glass Sea Oats stand like "rows of corn" up to 80 inches tall. 488 x 768 px (119 KB) 0 Comments	Component #3- C I have been weaving glass for 20 years, above is a small study of net weaving. Fired in stages or overlapping sections, the completed nets could span out to be 20+ feet wide... 300 x 476 px (18 KB) 0 Comments	#1- Carved Phot I rely on satellite imagery and aerial photography as subject matter to make my heavily textured glass plates. The Atchafalaya River above is close to my home; a fresh water and sediment diversion program began here in 1985 to create new Wetlands. AT 280 x 298 px (30 KB) 0 Comments
Wax River I use aerial photos like this one of the Wax River, as models to hand carve or render my river delta or wetland images. 395 x 319 px (53 KB) 0 Comments	Hand carving th Once I have a basic outline formed, I lay a layer glass on the bed. 336 x 442 px (26 KB) 0 Comments	Detail The glass is removed and adjusted or re-carved several times until I satisfied with the composition. Glass is fired to make the textured plate. 336 x 448 px (51 KB) 0 Comments
Mold seperation The glass is cooled to room temp. 448 x 336 px (37 KB) 0 Comments	Texture Detail The glass is now heavily textured and similar to a topographical map. The raised or carved “wetlands” protrude into or above the plate, rendering the satellite imagery in 3-dimensions. 583 x 768 px (126 KB) 0 Comments	Cyanotype portr William Henry Fox Talbot and others invented cyanotype photography in 19th century, but quickly left it behind as the science of reproducing imagery made this and similar techniques impractical. 540 x 768 px (123 KB) 0 Comments
Cyanotype portr “One man’s trash, in another man’s treasure”, and I now use the disadvantages the “science” of photography found in these techniques, to produce imagery or “carved photographs” directly from my textured glass plates. 583 x 768 px (57 KB) 0 Comments	Reeves BFK pape Cyanotypes, the Van Dyke Brown Process, and Gum Bi-chromate techniques all may require UV light sources and long exposure times, but give me the freedom to make large-scale prints directly from my glass plates. Once dried this paper is UV light sensative 448 x 336 px (24 KB) 0 Comments	Painted texture To create imagery, I block sunlight with tempera paints worked onto and into textured glass channels and groves from exposing the U.V. light sensitive paper directly below. This photo shows my carved and painted glass plate, as it exposes a paper print 336 x 442 px (42 KB) 0 Comments
Kiln-cast glass Above is a detail photo of the painted glass plate. 336 x 442 px (63 KB) 0 Comments	Cyanotype Print Above is the completed and rinsed cyanotype photo. 336 x 442 px (52 KB) 0 Comments	Completed plate The edges of the glass plate are polished, and holes are drilled to directly mount it above the corresponding paper print. For this exhibition I plan to make 6- 30 inch wide by 70 inch wall hangings, and one large one 70 inches wide by 126 inches tall. 1024 x 768 px (178 KB) 0 Comments
Part 2 of my Ex As seen in the scale model above, viewers will walk between freestanding mixed media Sculptures of Glass Sea Oats. Large piles of sand will be used to not only help to support the glass, but to also keep the public a safe distance away. 399 x 768 px (105 KB) 0 Comments	80" tall glass I have developed kiln-casting techniques to make glass “sea oats” similar to this photo above, up to 72 inches long, 1010 x 768 px (120 KB) 0 Comments	Sand on the flo 954 x 768 px (237 KB) 0 Comments
Part #3 commerc I would utilize my woven and slumped glass techniques, to represent draped shrimps similar to this photo above. 455 x 600 px (75 KB) 0 Comments	Suspended Glass As seen in this photo, my woven glass nets would be suspended from the ceilings and walls by steel armatures and copper cables. 280 x 448 px (24 KB) 0 Comments	13.JPG Glass weavings would be heated and slumped from cables as seen above. Depending on the gallery space or room size, segments of weavings would be overlapped and suspended from steel armatures to make “Glass Shrimp Nets” up to 20 feet wide. 160 x 122 px (8 KB) 0 Comments
Land lost to "h Hurricane Katrina taught me not to take for granted what can so easily be lost. In the time it took for you to read this, the land in the photo above was lost. Please forward this page to any persons or organizations that could help me produce this show 640 x 480 px (84 KB) 0 Comments	3 583 x 768 px (129 KB) 0 Comments

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