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Art and Soil: The Aesthetics of Dirt
- New ways of soil comunication -
by
Gerd Wessolek
1 Soil aesthetics
2 Some own soil and art work
3 Examples of soil Art in education
4 Conclusions
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Low evidence of soil
Reasons
� For many people soil is dirt and unattractive and
� mostly they do not have any soil education
� Soil is not visible (=ground)
Question: is soil science the only way to give soil more
relevance and importance?
Nature Art and Science
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Nature Art and Science
„It makes a difference, which way you go to
discover a discipline and which door you‘re
using to enter“.
Goethe
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Soil Art is such an entrance...
It uses aesthetic technics and
elements to communicate…
Nature Art and Science
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Soil aesthetic criteria
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Soil texture in...
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used in Zen gardens in Kyoto, Japan
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Soil structure
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...picked up by Joseph Beuy‘s „earth-telefon“ (1968)
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By the way:
It‘s easy for you to discover soil structuremotives.....
Some examples
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Soil surface structures at the coast
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...artificial soil structures at the beach
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human structures at the beach
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Most important soil aestheic criteria: Soil color
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Using aquarel colors to characterize different soils.
(i) Podsolic soils
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Landscape painting usingaquarel colors combinedwith parent soil material
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Describing soil propertiesusing both soil and colors
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Soil and Art in education
• Good way to discover „soil“
• Active participation and being creative
• It‘s fun
some examples of student‘s work....
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Examples of student‘s projects
• A soil museum in a soil park
• „Ecological footprint“ (humification/mineralization)
on the Berliner „Gleisdreieck“
• „Soil torte“ demonstrating remediation success on a
former waste water disposal field Berlin-Buch
• Art with urban soil on a fallow site
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A virtuel soil museum by Andreas Vetter
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A virtuel soil art park by Andreas Vetter: listening soil music
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The carot footprint on the Berlin Gleisdreieck
Demonstrating mineralization process
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Former waste water disposal field
„Berlin-Buch“
How to demonstrate a remediation success?
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Soil profile: before and after remidiation using glacial till
---------------SOIL ART: Künstlerische Perspektiven in der Ökologie---------------
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Hardy Buhl, TU-Berlin Soil ArtistSoil Profile “Torte”, waste water disposal field Berlin-Buch, 2006
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Hardy Buhl and TU-Berlin Soil Artists, Soil Profile Torte, Rieselfelder, Berlin-Buch, 2006
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---------------SOIL ART--------------
„Art with urban soils“
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Discovering urban soil and collecting samples
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Fixing objects and urban soil on a canvas....
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Contemplation with soil...
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Urban soil art (120 x 180cm)
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My conclusions
• Soil science „pure“ is often too unattractive!
• Pick up the Ikea slogan: Use your challenges to
discover soil !
• Soil and Art is only one way to do it
...thank you for your interest
---------------SOIL and ART--------------------
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Questionnaire on Soil- Art - Aethetics
1. Annual Meeting of the German Soil Science Society, Dresden 2007
2. SUITMA congress 2007, China
3. University Weihenstephan, Germany
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0,0
5,0
10,0
15,0
20,0
25,0
30,0
35,0
40,0
45,0
1 2 3 4 5 6Aspect
Per
cent
natural science
social science
aesthetics
combination of 1 and 3
combination of 1 and 2
combination of all
Which aspects are relevant for soil?
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15%
49%
36%sometimes no
yes
Does your profession include aesthtic elements?
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0,0 10,0 20,0 30,0 40,0 50,0 60,0 70,0
1
very important
important
unimportant
Percent
Is soil art important?
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83,1%
16,9%
yes
no
Do you collect soil or stones for aesthetic reasons?
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Three examples of our study project
1. On the Berliner „Gleisdreieck“
„ Ecological footprint“ (humification/mineralization)
2. On the former waste water disposal field Berlin-Buch
„Soil torte“ (demonstrating remediation success)
3. On a fallow site close to our Institute
„Art with urban soil“ (urban soils are interesting)
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A German Soil Alphabet
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(iii) Gleyic soils
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(ii) Pseudogleyic soils