Category:Earth Art

Wild Horses, Cave Painting at Chauvet, France

Approximately 32,000–30,000 years ago

Hunting Petroglyph, Iran

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroglyph#/media/File:Golpayegan.petroglyphs0101.jpg

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July 2026

Charles Ross took 50 years building “Star Axis,” a naked-eye observatory in New Mexico

Now his Masterwork is ready for us to view a Message from the Universe

The artist, 88, belongs to a generation of land artists who shed galleries and cities to work at a scale more common in ancient Egypt and Mesoamerica. In 1975, he had been crisscrossing the Southwest for four years, hunting for the perfect location for “Star Axis,” when a cowboy appeared and handed him a business card.

The cowboy’s father, W.O. Culbertson Jr., happened to own the surrounding 62,000 acres. Ross called him up and explained his plans for a sculpture that would help people sense the deep past and distant future, by visualizing the changing position of Earth’s current north star, Polaris. He wanted to see the night sky as Cleopatra might have seen it.

Ross imagined visitors observing Polaris through a metal ring at the top of a long staircase, aligned to the Earth’s celestial axis. “I said, ‘I need about a square mile.’ And I’ll never forget the answer. He said, ‘Well, hell, we’ve got plenty of those.’”

• https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/arts/design/charles-ross-star-axis-land-art.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zlA.nKCN.DOeO5lYwQaxC&smid=em-share

More:

Polaris, where art thou?

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris

With NYT art references to:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Jetty

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lightning_Field

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_(artwork)

• https://rodencrater.com/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Turrell

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_eye

Ancient Wisdom

GreenPolicy360 in Africa, Star Axis gazing, looking up...

Night after night, the old tribes in & along the Great Rift Valley

Wanderers, the San people, measuring & monitoring 'The Stars Above'

Read of Origins & the Journey of 'Star People'

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/index.php/File:ECO.png

Beginnings of the Hominids/Hominins, Proto-Earthlings

A Shared Story: Inside the Early Times, "The Rift: Scar of Africa"

• https://macmillan.yale.edu/africa/stories/living-scar-shared-story-inside-rift-scar-africa

• https://aeon.co/essays/the-rift-valley-tells-the-entire-human-story-from-the-start

• https://earthhow.com/human-evolution-timeline/

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Also see Environmental Art

International photo contest of nature

• https://wikilovesearth.org/

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2023/Report

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Consider 'Citizen Artist' Earth Art

• http://www.ecoartexpeditions.com/citizen-artist.html
• http://www.ecoartexpeditions.com/about.html

Citizen Artist™ is a participatory science research platform, employs Art-Based Perceptual Ecology (ABPE) research methodologies to study ecological systems change. With a focus on divergent ways of knowing, the non-conventional and integrative research methods (ABPE) are grounded in multimodal knowledge systems and sensory-based learning ...

About -- Dr. Lee Ann Woolery

With a focus on divergent ways of knowing, Dr. Lee Ann Woolery pioneered Art-Based Perceptual Ecology (ABPE), a transdisciplinary approach to field-based ecological research.

Dr. Woolery holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies from Antioch University New England. Her field study in Desert Ecology was conducted in the Sonoran Desert in both Arizona and Mexico. Dr. Woolery’s dissertation: Art-based perceptual ecology as a way of knowing the language of place....

Dr. Woolery: "My work is grounded in a desire to find ways that people can come to know the changes in our environment that do not solely rely on the Western scientific paradigm but collaborate in tandem with conventional science. Art and science can complement one another in the service of biospheric change and environmental sustainability through a pluralistic discourse, which may generate new questions and make available new solutions to environmental issues." (2002).

Dr. Woolery is Associate Editor on the editorial board for the The Ecological Society of America's (ESA) for the international journal, Earth Stewardship.

• https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/28353617

The Earth Stewardship Journal is a forum for cultural exchange of diverse knowledge systems and collective understanding on how we can protect our planet.

The Earth Stewardship Journal links diverse knowledge systems (research) and action at multiple scales. Earth Stewardship reveals multiple forms of ecological knowledge and practices, and broadens the mission of ecological science and art.

GARY SNYDER, in his book "The Practice of the Wild", talks about riding in a pickup truck in Australia with an aborigine. As they were traveling along, the man was telling stories at an 'amazing pace', too fast for them to be told properly. Snyder wonders why the hyperactive story-telling. He finally discovers that important knowledge of the man's tribe is recited as the tribe moves along in the bush. Each feature of the landscape relates to a specific story or part of a story. At the speed of a moving pickup, of course, the stories had to be told faster... Moral of today's story -- Practice earth art appropriately... slow, faster, and very fast.

JillBliss.com

Jill Bliss: I LIVE ON AND TRAVEL AMONG THE ISLANDS IN THE SALISH SEA, AN INTRICATE NETWORK OF COASTAL WATERWAYS THAT STRETCHES FROM BRITISH COLUMBIA TO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. Here among the temperate rainforests I create artwork that combines illustration, photography and the temporary arrangement of local plants, mushrooms and other found items.

GreenPolicy360: We zoom in on the mushrooms... mushroom networks and networking... the mushrooms are living systems... they are connecting life in the forests... The fungi talking to the trees... listen and watch carefully as you walk through the forests, underfoot they are there... * https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Fungi

Yes, look carefully...

Remember It's All Related "Life on Earth, Systems Connected"

Yes, Earth Is Valued Across the Universe, Get with It 'Earthlings', Protect & Preserve Life on Earth

Earth Right Now

www.thinbluelayer.com

Peace 🌎 Not War

STEWART UDALL: THE POLITICS OF BEAUTY

* http://vimeo.com/708323643 * https://vimeo.com/491417423 * https://boxoffice.santafe.film/events/stewartudallthepoliticsofbeauty/

“Stewart Udall: Go well, do well, my children! Support all endeavors that promise a better life for the inhabitants of our planet. Cherish sunsets, wild creations, and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth!”

* https://www.nps.gov/articles/lady-bird-johnson-beautification-cultural-landscapes.htm

 

 

 

Humanity's 'Mark on the Planet'

The Anthropocene Project

• https://theanthropocene.org/

• https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/the-anthropocene-project

• https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/photographs/anthropocene

• https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/news

• https://youtu.be/kiYoojU_z-A (video)

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Earth Art / Land Art / Earthworks

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_art

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_rock_garden

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Rock_art_in_Asia

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Contemporary Earth & Land Artists

Christo and Jeanne Claude

Walter De Maria

Agnes Denes

Jim Denevan

Jan Dibbets

Chris Drury

Hamish Fulton

Andy Goldsworthy

Michael Heizer

Nancy Holt

Maya Lin

Richard Long

Ahmad Nadalian

David Nash

Georgia Papageorge

Nobuo Sekine

Robert Smithson

James Turrell

Nils Udo

Strijdom van der Merwe

Change is nature in motion

Green Museum

• https://greenmuseum.org/

Green Museum / Earth Art Terms

Many artists and critics use the words "environmental art", "eco-art", and even "land art", interchangeably or at times use the same term to mean different things...

Green Museum uses "environmental art" to encompass "art in nature", "earthworks", "earth art", "eco-art", "ecological art", and "land art"

Earth Artists -- Let's call Earth Artists ... Planet Citizen Artists

Jane Ingram Allen

AMD&ART / T. Allan Comp

Ulrike Arnold

Jackie Brookner

Carlotta Brunetti

Gilles Bruni and Marc Babarit

Georg Dietzler

Abigail Doan

Chris Drury

Lukas Felzmann

Erica Fielder

Mark Fischer

Amy Franceschini

Jean Paul Ganem

Linda Gass

Tim Gaudreau

Reiko Goto

Lorna Green

Yolanda Gutiérrez

Fritz Haeg

David Haley

Newton & Helen Mayer Harrison

Isabelle Hayeur

HeHe

Lynne Hull

Ichi Ikeda

Basia Irland

Patricia Johanson

Ned Kahn

Kang, Hee-joon

Deborah Kennedy

Josh Keyes

Ko, Seung-hyun

Yutaka Kobayashi

Ingrid Koivukangas

Birgit Kratzheller

Gloria Lamson

Helen Lessick

Stacy Levy

Mary Ellen Long

Richard Lowenberg

Laurie Lundquist

John Lyall

Mike MacDonald

David Maisel

Dominique Mazeaud

Daniel McCormick

Anke Mellin

Ilka Meyer

Kathryn Miller

Matthew Moore

Ahmad Nadalian

Jeroen Nelemans

Nils-Udo

Nine Mile Run

Jim Nollman

Baile Oakes

Sarah Jane Pell

Cary Peppermint

Steve Peters

Perdita Phillips

Platform London

Andrea Polli

Herman Prigann

Martin Prothero

Aviva Rahmani

r e a d e r

Red Earth

Hester Reeve

Peter Richards

Kathleen Rogers

John Roloff

Ann T. Rosenthal

David Rothenberg

Barbara Roux

Lezli Rubin-Kunda

Christy Rupp

Shelley Sacks

Gregg Schlanger

Scott Schuldt

Brad Schwede

Mara Adamitz Scrupe

Lada Sega

Fern Shaffer and Othello Anderson

Bonnie Ora Sherk

Steven Siegel

Buster Simpson

Richard Solomon

Anne-Katrin Spiess

Roy Staab

Chrysanne Stathacos

Susan Leibovitz Steinman

Kim Stringfellow

Superflex

Diana Lynn Thompson

Trashformaciones

Tree Mountain

Urs-P. Twellmann

Strijdom van der Merwe

Nico van Hoorn

Jeroen van Westen

Ruth Wallen

Shan Wells

Chris Welsby

Simon Whitehead

Shai Zakai

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Zen-Stone-Garden

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"On the Road Outside Gallup, New Mexico"

by Ecolivia

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Views across the Globe Flying Above with UAV's

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Global Art Project / 350 Earth

Global Art - 2011

With a H/T to GreenPolicy's early advisor Bill McKibben, who went on to start up 350.org

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Bill_McKibben,_planet_citizen

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"Our posturings, our imagined self-importance,

the delusion that we may have some privileged position,

are challenged by this point of pale light.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark ....

There is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

This distant image of our tiny world...

underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another,

and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've got."

~ In memory of Carl Sagan

• http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pale_blue_dot

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Black Peter

Lyrics By: Robert Hunter

Music By: Jerry Garcia

All of my friends come to see me last night

I was laying in my bed and dying

Annie Beauneu from Saint Angel

Say "the weather down here so fine"

Just then the wind came squalling through the door

But who can the weather command

Just want to have a little peace to die

And a friend or two I love at hand

Fever roll up to a hundred and five

Roll on up, gonna roll back down

One more day I find myself alive

Tomorrow maybe go beneath the ground

See here how everything

Lead up to this day

And it's just like any other day

That's ever been

Sun going up and then

The sun going down

Shine through my window

And my friends they come around

Come around, come around

The people might know, but the people don't care

That a man can be as poor as me

Take a look at poor Peter, he's lying in pain

Now let's come run and see

Run and see

Run and see

Run, run and see, and see

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