LAND ART INSTALLATION

• Artist - Adrian Villar Rojas • Artist - Do Ho Suh

• Title - My Family Dead • Title - Karma
• Year Built - 2009 • Year Built - 2003
• Location - Ushuaia, Argentina • Location - The Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston
• Meaning - Reminds us about the uncomfortable
relationship humans have with nature.
• Interpretation through Poem -
“I know a place where the world is still,
where time and space have no hold.
I know a place where..
my heart and soul emerges into a whole,
and there're stories left untold.
This is the place to keep our oceans
clean like a floor.
Sun slowly drying, Sealife is been mourning.
Once so free,
This beautiful giant in the sea.
So strong, So powerful,
but now, feels like a burning tree.
• Meaning - Depicts karma extending from the
All his near and dear are lost!
ceiling to the floor. Also creates a sense of forward
It's because of humans,
movement.
they've paid the cost.
Heat shimmering across the sand,
• Interpretation - Through installation, we get to
understand that man by working for himself
Such a beauty dying on this land.
somehow also ends up killing his true self. As he
Man in his shelf,
develops himself by stepping forward, he tends to
Oh! One last call for help.
be greedy and moves straight without thinking. Also
No more plastic straws..
karma strikes back to every creature on this earth.
No matter what!
Will we stand for this land ?
For the one who sacrificed
her heart for cruel mankind..”

- Shubham Kamble
Yellow Batch