Ingrid Koivukangas
Environmental
Artist
Responding to sites around the world through works created in site specific installation, intervention, ephemeral sculpture, video, sound, web, permanent site-specific sculpture, photography, printmaking,painting & drawing.
Welcoming opportunities to work in different geographic regions &
locations in the world, creating site-specific works in response to the
land.
Wildfire
- Installation
Alternator Gallery, 1998
Wild Fire explores and examines
the effects of forest fires at two fire sites in the Kelowna area. The
installation occupies approximately 80 square feet and utilizes materials
gathered at the sites and a sensor activated looping audio tape. Viewers
are encouraged to interact with the work by taking glass jars out of a
large standing box, that has been sectioned off into cubby holes that
are lined with pine needles. The jars hold materials from the site: ashes;
pieces of bark, roots, branches; stones. A ten foot twisted charcoal shard
of a tree mimics a drawn line and entices a closer look, while a blackened
stump sits in the corner like a giant claw. Pieces of hollowed out, burned
roots are suspended from the ceiling and gently move as viewers pass by
them. The sound of slow, quiet breathing is activated when the viewer
steps in to the installation space.
©Ingrid Koivukangas 1998
Link below to forest fire site photographs
