Land Art

Land art is temporary art made with nature materials/ on land. My inspiration was to make a dress out of leaves, I went outside and obtained some leaves from the nearby trees. I grabbed some rubber cement, figuring that it would be more sturdy. I originally wanted to make it on a tree: 

But the leaves kept falling off due to a blowing wind. So I instead did it on a little boardwalk: 

I started with some rubber cement...

Put leaves on to form the top and then started layering at the bottom of the dress so the leaves would layer better.

After attaching the leaves I put a branch with leaves still on it to give it dimension. But... It wouldn't glue down so I just left it on top.

I found some branches with dead leaves and put them at the bottom, sort of like the leaves were transitioning into death. 

I found some colorful leaves as accents and decided to make the dress a autumn dress. Representing how the leaves change color and die.

So I added more colors. 

More pictures: 

I liked how it just looked like a pile of leaves from this angle.

I'm pretty pleased with it... If I was going to do something different with it I probably would have taken it a step further and made it wearable but that would take wayyy more than the time allotted. 

This is the thing 2 days later with it raining outside: