I think that there is something
beautiful about a person who can find the odd and unusual in the world. That is why I am personally drawn to the
otherworldly landscapes of Martin Hill. Now he obviously creates sculptures to
fit the environments that he places them in and that is what is unique about
him. He makes each image so carefully that each sculpture, no matter what
element it is make form, belongs in the setting he places it in. Most of the sculptures that he creates are
geometric and more specifically, spherical.
He creates the occasional organic, humanoid shape as well. Most of his
landscapes have the subject placed in the mid-ground which seems like the most
appropriate place to peak the viewers interest.
Hill’s style seems to be to take
the basic four elements, fire, water, earth and air and mixing them with one
another by placing a natural sculpture in an environment that has a contrasting
element. Hill’s aim seems to be to
manipulate an existing environment to be more surreal and fantastical. There seems to be an importance placed on
the creation of these sculptures from completely natural resources. Perhaps,
Hill is thinking that same way that I am thinking when tackling photographic
depictions of nature.
In my research for the final
project of this course, I wanted to find people who take seemingly ordinary
landscapes and manipulate the perspective of the subject into being something
utterly new and perhaps even zoomorphic.
Hill not only achieves this goal but he also instills the mindset that
nature should not be destroyed in order to depict nature in a photograph. For instance,
making a sculpture out of ice and placing it in a lake does not alter cause any
harm to the environment whatsoever, whereas a plastic sculpture has the
potential to do so. All in all, Hill creates these fantastical scenes without
harming the environment around him…besides the occasional controlled fire of
course.
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