Counter to the works of the Land Art movement, Beverly Buchanan’s earthworks refer to narratives of

Counter to the works of the Land Art movement, Beverly Buchanan’s earthworks refer to narratives of violence and resistance. According to Buchanan, “a lot of my pieces have the word ‘ruins’ in their titles because I think that tells you this object has been through a lot and survived—that’s the idea behind the sculptures…it’s like, 'Here I am; I’m still here!’" One of her seven known site-specific earthworks located across the Southeast, Ruins and rituals was made using a similar process as the Frustula sculptures: a laborious cracking and grinding of organic material found at the site to create pigment mixed with concrete and cast in her molds.So evocative of a graveyard that Buchanan thought of calling the sculpture Southern Comfort, this dispersed monument to unknown individuals is anchored by invisibility: the majority of its parts abandoned in unknown woodlands and sunk in the Ocmulgee river.Find four of Buchanan’s earthworks, as they are found today, in an immersive video installation in Beverly Buchanan: Ruins and Rituals.Park McArthur (American, b. 1984), Jason Hirata (American, b. 1986), and Jennifer Burris (American, b. 1982) Video still: June 10–19, 2016 (2016) Created for the exhibition -- source link

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