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Sabine Kussmaul visual artist

  • Home
  • About
  • Practice components
    • 1 - Drawing
    • 2 - Line in landscape
    • 3 - Body-movement-environment
    • 4 - Objects: revealing process
    • 5 - Mapping experience
    • 6 - Inscription
  • Current work
    • 'working title'
  • Research
    • Artmaking outdoors (PhD)
    • 1 - Mobility: body & artefacts
    • 2 - Modularity
    • 3 - Sculptural drawing supports
    • 4 - Weather & topography
    • 5 - Marking human presence
    • 6 - Art as material practice
  • Exhibitions and events
    • 2025 Bakestonedale Moor...
    • 2022 Unpredictable, particular...
    • 2022 Marks and artefacts
    • 2021 Rock cover...
    • 2020 Mobile working kit...
    • 2020 Windsplatter inks...
    • 2019 Paper Scrolls...
    • 2019 Ghost Mills...
    • 2019 Fire...
    • 2018 Final MA show...
    • 2018 Marking process...
    • 2018 Book...
    • 2018 Erwood Reservoir...
    • 2018 Isle of Tiree I ...
    • 2018 Isle of Tiree II...
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Sabine Kussmaul visual artist

5 mile sky

Added on June 19, 2017 by sabine kussmaul.

This was run one of a sequence of 5. The idea for this one was to focus on 'sky'. 
When I set up this stretchy-line drawing and then looked at it, the way it related to the horizon line and the sky, it made me wonder about the ancients' motivation to build and make stone circles and other material constructions in the environment. It appeared to me as a very  meaningful thing to do, to construct a drawing that visually corresponded to the sky, the horizon line, that connected me with the act of making to the surrounding environment. I wondered, if the willfull act of construction might have meant for ancients to gain a sense of control of the environment at whose mercy their lives depended. Or, if you can't control, you can at least 'communicate' which might create a feeling of control, at least....

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