Richard Long is a British Artist, specialising in sculpture.
His work reminds me of Cairns on mountainsides, of cave painting and of neolithic structures like Stonehenge. I researched these images for the Independent Study Project before this, when I was trying to understand different narrative concepts. I felt this work was strong and challenged my immediate knowledge and reading of narrative. Now when I re-look at these, a lightbulb suddenly shines. They are also passages of time, his journey, interpreted into form representing a linear structured narrative, however his work pushes the boundaries of what is linear, it is very much a contemporary imagination.
This one is my favourite, because of the leading lines of the path he made, the eye is lead down the path how I want to walk down it. The rocks and the shape of the ridge form another set of leading lines distinct against the continuing ridge in the background. I like the composition of the ridge almost towering over the sky and the subtle diagonal curve slashing through the image adding to the drama of the disparity between the light fluffy clouds and the dark hard volcanic rock of the mountain.
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