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Giving back to Nature
by Janina birtolo
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rt and nature have always been Earth Day was being conceived. Hull,
the closest of companions. Since who now creates what she calls trans-
the earliest cave paintings, artists species art, turned “green” beginning in
have looked to the world around them the 1980s, while living in Wyoming.
for inspiration, subject matter and the “There was not much audience in
tools of their craft—pigments, brushes, Wyoming for contemporary art then,” she
shapers and stories. With the growth of recalls. “I was making art about our rela-
the green art movement in the last sev- tionship with other species and I found
eral decades, the relationship between I had to ship it out to find an audience. I
art and nature has become even more thought I might as well make art for the
symbiotic. Today’s eco-artists go beyond animals—and I created a niche. The art
taking inspiration from their surround- world became a lot more interested.”
ings; they give back substance that In 1983, Hull carved her first
helps nature thrive. water-collecting hydroglyph in Al-
“Eco-art is currently getting more bany County, Wyoming. These works
attention,” observes Lynne Hull, a resemble ancient petroglyphs (stone
Colorado-based artist who has been drawings) laid horizontal, but also serve
crafting sculptures that also create as artistic catch basins for rain, pro-
wildlife habitat. “A number of people viding precious water for wildlife. By
are working in different ways, interact- the 1990s, the artist was constructing
ing with environmental systems on raptor roosts, to provide nesting sites for
behalf of conservation.” eagles and hawks. She has also created
She notes that the eco-art move- floating islands, owl houses, canoe
ment began in the late 1960s, as trails and “Migration Mileposts” to link
awareness of the environment was communities that share migratory birds.
just starting to break the surface of our At this point, she has crafted works in
collective consciousness and the first 14 states and eight countries (more at
Eco-art.org).
“Mostly, I create structures that can
replace damaged nature,” she explains.
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