11 Acres

It can't get much bigger than this...What a week I've had here in rural Illinois at the Fields Project. I will detail more about how we created this field sculpture in a later post, but let me just say this was a community effort, a lot of hard work, 2 full days in the hot sun in the field gridding out this design with flags then mowing the design. I was one of 3 women and a student who did designs, I'll show the others when I have photos and more time to post. I'm running back out to the country to paint, only a day and a half left before our art fair on Sunday and then back to the city...with the most amazing memories and greater appreciation for the land, the farmer, this special community around Oregon, Illinois and art making!

"This 11 acre field sculpture, by Chicago artist Anne Leuck Feldhaus, was created to encourage people to adopt from their local animal shelters and rescue groups."

View my Flickr Photo Journal of the making of this sculpture!

Comments

[erica jane]

oh anne
its beautiful!
your dog is in the field
running. it has a very
spirtual feel to it. so so
fantastic. i'm so happy for you that you did this. its amazing!!!
love you muchly!
erica jane

[Lois keller]

totally cool, your dog ran out of the painting into the field. hi to erica, wish we could all camp out in the center of it.

[heather gentile collins]

I got chills when I saw it! What an accomplishment. Good for you! I wanna hear all about it!
Heather

[Susan Torres]

It literally brought tears to my eyes and all I could do was hug my little poochies to let them know how grateful I was to have them. Thanks for caring so much about our little friends to do something so significant.

[Alyson B. Stanfield]

Oh, my! How cool is this? And this is the second time I've heard of Oregon, IL in the last week (I think I got an order from there--was that because of you?).

This is truly amazing.

[irene tague]

You are such an AMAZING artist. That is such a beautiful piece- is there anything that you can't do?? I imagine that was really tough to do but it sure looks fantastic. Thanks for posting it.

[Jim Tsioles]

Anne, very nice to meet you today at the art fair in Chicago. That is so cool that you did this art in Oregon!

Jim Tsioles