Video: Art visible from the sky. Daniel Dancer's Art of the Sky project
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Daniel Dancer's art projects usually involve hundreds, if not thousands, of participants. But it is absolutely impossible to understand the meaning of their actions while on earth. There is only one way to evaluate the author's idea - by going high into the sky.
Daniel came up with the idea to create a project called "Art of the Sky" while traveling in South America and getting to know the Nazca Lines - giant geometric and figured geoglyphs in southern Peru. Inspired by the creations of Indian tribes, the author decided to do something similar himself. For several years he collaborated with Stan Head, who created huge drawings in the fields using a tractor, but one day he came up with an unusual idea: while working on another such image, Dancer invited 400 schoolchildren, dressed them up in bright T-shirts and put the children along certain lines. However, this idea received its logical conclusion only ten years later, when the author created the first image within the framework of the Art of the Sky project.
To implement his next project, Daniel negotiates with the school administration, gives out bright multicolored T-shirts to students and explains to whom, where and how to become. Additional elements of future images can be leaves, shredded tree bark, old clothes or things intended for recycling. When everything is ready on the ground, the author resorts to the help of a high crane or even a balloon in order to shoot everything from a height with a photo and video camera. Daniel Dancer is sure that “only from the sky you can understand what is really happening on earth” - and this applies not only to his works.
Daniel Dancer is proud that children take part in his projects with great pleasure. “They wake up in the morning and say to their mother:“Today is the most important day in my life,”the author says with a smile. - And when mom asks why, the children answer: "Today I will be a part of a crocodile!" Some are surprised how Danser manages to manage so many schoolchildren (and the author's largest project was attended by five thousand people), but Daniel assures that this is easy: the main thing is to interest children, and his projects cannot be called uninteresting.
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