Lost Art in the Lost Coast-part one

This year I have made two trips to the Lost Coast in Northern California- one solo trip and another with a team of five.  My visits have been for the sole purpose of building sculptures on the coast as part of a series of recent work that I am calling "Lost Art."  I am in the process of preparing an exhibition of the photography of the sculptures, that were themselves torn down by the incoming high tides.  

 

The Lost Coast,  Northern California

Viewed from the south

Photo taken by Christopher Casanova

The Lost Coast is a protected mountainous coastal area in Northern California about 3 hours north of San Francisco.  Extremely powerful surf and weather push the natural environment in this 60-mile stretch of forgotten coastline to high levels of growth and erosion.  There are no roads.  

"South of Shipman's"  Installation in progress

Artist: Christopher Casanova

Lost Coast, Northern California  October 2008

Photo taken by Gaston Pierre

The sculptures consist of very large boulders that are hoisted into the air and then lower on to fragile structures made out of driftwood sticks.