Surrounded Islands

Janet Echelman is an artist who considers the cutting edge of sculptures, public art, and urban transformation in her art works. Her art work in question “Her Secret Is Patience” uses a cactus flower shape as a symbol for the Arizona desert city of Phoenix. Her art work is held by three leaning poles that are forty to hundred feet high. According to Janet her act work was inspired by the patience of the saguaro cactus, she say, “It’s a spiny cactus putting down roots in search of water in the desert, saving up every ounce of energy until, one night, in the middle of the cool darkness, it unfurls one succulent bloom” (Artforms, p. 6) The center of her art work is the colors of the net being both everlasting and ever changing, solid yet spacious,

The painting “Holiday at Mentone” depicts a beach in Melbourne where people dressed in elaborate clothing are lounging and taking part in seaside activities. The painting appeals to the audience as it is a simplistic and vibrant painting that creates a sense radiance and contentment. The first things you tend to look at in the painting include the lady dressed in pastel pink convening on a beach chair, a white weathered foot bridge place right on the horizon, a well-dressed man in the right of the painting and a coastline that seems as if it stretches on endlessly. Although as you look into closer you recognise new details in the artwork. The woman reading a newspaper seems to be lost in her own world not even observing that her beach umbrella

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Another example is “Her Secret is Patience”, the 145-ft-tall aeronautical model in Phoenix, Arizona, is new city symbol hailed for adding to the renewal of downtown. Suspended over the new 2-city square Civic Space Park, the model is fantastic yet delicate, settled set up however always in movement, it moves tenderly noticeable all around, choreographed by the flux of abandon winds. During the day, the sculpture floats high above heads, treetops, and buildings. At night, the enlightenment changes colour gradually through the seasons. The objective in choosing the colours is to provide residents some little climate relief through colour, adding cool tints in summer, and warm tones in winter.

The first environmental art exhibition entitled “Earthworks” was directed in October 1968 by Thomas W. Leavitt. That is about the time when the landscape art movement emerged, with its goals to liberate art from the galleries and museums, to take the artistic practice outdoors- into ‘natural’ or relatively untouched spaces in one sense, but also into neglected areas such as tree ways, industrial riversides and despoiled and polluted sites. This movement outdoor signalled both a conscious