{"id":1058,"date":"2012-05-12T19:23:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T09:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2014-05-30T17:53:01","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T07:53:01","slug":"traces-of-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2012\/05\/12\/traces-of-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Traces of leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week I chanced upon Pete McLean\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s blogsite Art and About<\/a><\/em>. Pete really does like to get about \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in the natural landscape, that is \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and his beautiful artworks include wood engravings as well as prints and rubbings from objects he picks up outdoors, such as bits of wood, mushrooms and leaves.<\/p>\n

From time to time Pete makes ephemeral artworks in situ, composing handfuls of dried grass on a hillside, for example, or rearranging a drift of snow. But surprisingly he is also interested in the urban pavement and sometimes traces around fallen leaves<\/a> on the footpath with chalk. For me it is interesting to discover one of those artists whose works you sometimes come across on the pavement without ever knowing who did them, or why.<\/p>\n

But the blog post that originally caught my eye was a photograph of what Pete calls \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcconcrete fossils<\/a>, those special places in the suburban landscape where traces of leaves and other life have been recorded in the man made lithosphere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. Pete\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s photographs reminded me of some I had taken in Stanmore (Sydney) a few years ago.<\/p>\n

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Leaf prints in Salisbury Road, Stanmore (Sydney), 2009.<\/p><\/div>\n

I made a comment on Pete\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s site, he replied, and I decided to write this post. But when I returned to his site to check that I had got things right, I found he had already written a post about Pavement Graffiti<\/em>. Such is the incestuous world of the blogosphere. Thanks Pete and best wishes with your lovely creations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week I chanced upon Pete McLean\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s blogsite Art and About. Pete really does like to get about \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in the natural landscape, that is \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and his beautiful artworks include wood engravings as well as prints and rubbings from objects he picks up outdoors, such as bits of wood, mushrooms and leaves. From time <\/p>\n

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