Video: Living Sculptures by Robert Kennon
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Concrete and moss are seemingly incompatible components at first glance. However, it was them that Robert Cannon united in his works - and now they are not soulless concrete sculptures, but living art that grows and changes.
The series of sculptures made of concrete and moss was named "Terraform" (from the Latin terra - earth and forma - view). The Robert Kennon website provides the following interpretation of this definition: it is a process of deliberate changes in the atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology, as a result of which conditions are established on the planet suitable for human life.
Among Robert's sculptures one can see statues of Apollo and Venus, hanging gardens, animal figures - made of concrete, they are at the same time a habitat of green moss, which, expanding, covers an ever larger surface of the sculptures. Often, works of art are reproached for non-functionality, but this can hardly affect the works of Robert Kennon: his "living statues" can be a wonderful decoration for any garden or park.
Robert Kennon is a Yale graduate (Bachelor of Architecture). He currently lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut.
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