Sidewalk Landscape #4
- Title
- Sidewalk Landscape #4
- LC Subject
- Photography Drawing Drawing--Themes, motives Sidewalks mixed media art photography photography (discipline)
- Creator
- Benson, Andrea
- Description
- This photograph of a section of sidewalk incorporates drawn elements that aid in the translation of sidewalk as landscape. Andrea Benson; Sidewalk Landscape #4; '88; State Office Building- Portland (Geology Dept.) The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
- Location
- Portland State Office Building >> Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
- 800 N.E. Oregon, Portland Oregon
- Award Date
- 1989
- Identifier
- 1989_psob_geology-dept_01_c01
- Accession Number
- 1989_psob_geology-dept_01_c01
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- Benson, Andrea
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- 18 x 20 inches (mounted)
- Material
- Mixed media; Photography photo, colored pencil, pastel
- Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Primary Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Relation
- Portland State Office Building Geology Department (1989) 1989_psob_geology-dept
- Has Version
- slide; color
- Institution
- Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
- Note
- Geology Department
- Color Space
- RGB
- Biographical Information
- I photographed the sidewalks because I see an interesting beauty in the cracks and the shapes, in the debris. Its already a little drawing already there at our feet and it is this record of interaction between humans and the environment. I use this photo as a base and a guide to draw on and make into something more, like taking an old piece of fabric and putting it into a quilt- its still an old piece of fabric but now its also something more. These three pieces are landscapes to me, in the original sense of being a sidewalk and a little landscape we step on, but also now as a small mountain landscape or little mountain ranges, but they don't have to be that. They are whatever the viewer sees or feels in them. Mostly I want to look at them and feel some sense of visual ""rightness"" or satisfaction (Benson, 1989).
