Creative Mowing and Crop Art
Crop artists plan in advance on paper, and often work with farmers, special equipment, and a diversity of crops to create multi-acre masterpieces that are viewed from the air and are captured via photographs. They draw on a variety of impressionist, surrealist, and modernist roots in their designs, and some are downright quirky: . Stan Herd is a renowned Crop artist.
Read more about this topic: Living Sculpture
Famous quotes containing the words creative, mowing, crop and/or art:
“Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.”
—Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)
“Then now is the chance for the flowers
That can’t stand mowers and plowers.
It must be now, though, in season
Before the not mowing brings trees on....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“And, by the way, who estimates the value of the crop which nature yields in the still wilder fields unimproved by man? The crop of English hay is carefully weighed, the moisture calculated, the silicates and the potash; but in all dells and pond-holes in the woods and pastures and swamps grows a rich and various crop only unreaped by man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Life without industry is guilt, industry without art is brutality.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)