Project #3 - Andy Goldsworthy’s Presidio

The art is from Andy Goldsworthy’s Presidio.  Presidio is located in San Francisco, and is a trending location for hikes and runs along the Bay Area Ridge Trail. The vicinity near and around Presidio where Andy Goldsworthy chose to place the pieces are distinct and is art that can constantly collaborate with the environment and transcended a great amount of beauty that constantly influences everyone who visits it. There is a collection of tree art that consist of two pieces in the forest. The Pieces were created to draw Andy’s Goldsworthy’s inspiration from places and create art from the materials found at the locations, such as twigs, leaves, and fallen trees “to make connections between what we call nature and what we call man-made.”

 The collection first introduced in 2008 is called the Spire. The Spire is built around the historic forest that was planted in the 19^th and 20^th centuries. The Spire is a sculpture which was constructed to include 35 large cypress trunks that are attached precisely together. Later in 2010 the Wood Line was implemented, located in a different part of the park than the Sculpture Spire. The piece is very elaborate and coincides amongst the woods of highline trees that are as high as high rise building. The Wood Line sculpture consists of eucalyptus logs laid out in a long curving line. The Wood Line intertwines in and out lying on the ground like a flat maze.  

I absolutely love the vision of the two pieces in the art collection at presidio from Andy Goldsworthy.  It was both innovative and thoughtful. I was able to connect with the pieces because they incorporate everything that I love, the outdoors of nature. Both pieces are elaborate and correspond to nature very well. I really admire the Wood Line maze like sculpture that intertwines in and out the forest with the logs. I thought that it was interesting that the sculpture Spire reaches higher than 90 feet in the sky and is uniquely placed to whereas newer trees that grow at the base will be vague because of its attractiveness. I also loved that by actually creating art with the tools that are already in the vicinity gives a more transcending illusion that plays with the chords of my emotions. I hope to visit the location very soon.  And I look forward to developing an art piece that does the same thing for our campus of the Pacific.  

Spire Sculpture

Wood Line Sculpture

 ~Tiffany