I started learning with Mr.
Terou Sazuki during the season of Easter until May 20th 2005.
HOW IT ALL STARTED
My father Pierre Marcel was one of the artist’s chosen to do an art project for the amusement parc Aventure land located near Magny en vexin in le Bois d’arthieul. He came home one day and told me about Terou and this project and that he needed alot of help doing it, so I imediatly said that I wanted to help! Thinking this would be a great artistic and learning experience for me to do, and it will help me out for my portfolio. So the next day he called in my school telling them about are project and we went out. When I arived to Aventure land’s art site it was already late and Terou was at the begining of the piece and already had some help from a man named Paul who works at the parc, we introduced are selfs and talked about the sculpture. We also talked about how a job is done corectly and what I need to know in advance about this piece and that its a job that uses up force and knowledge. So the next day, we got there and he showed me how to do it and the steps to take.
HOW ITS DONE
The entire sculpture consites of wood branches, chicken wire, and some strong cages.
First you place the cages into the forme you want it to be, then you attch it with the chicken wire and continue until the entire forme was ready. Then we went out to cut the branches- from big pieces to the thinist ones we could find, Each time we did this task it took about 2 hours or so to gather enough branches for about 3 feet of work.
(we where lucky enough to have had a forest at are diposition, which meant all the wood we need, and is the reason why Mr. Terou Suzuki chose to do his peice one with nature, in other words with wood)
We then brought the branches
back to the work site and cut off the leafs and unwanted pieces. We used the
biger branches (and some times TREES) went to the begining of the piece,
seeing how they are the strongist parts, the most important parts. We then take
the branches and put them where we wanted them to go, then with the chicken
wire we tightend the wood (with an electric drill) to the cage, and so on and
so on, we did this for both sides of the enormous sculpture until we where
ready to move on. Little by little we went out, cut wood, cut branches, cut
leafs, and put them in place. This process went one for the intire sculpture
from the first day until the last day. So after a while it just becomes normal.
Little by little we crept up to the middle from where we started using thiner
and thiner branches for the base. The whole thing pretty much looks like a
giant snail. We went on and on placing the wood reinforcing the structure.
Until we came to the end of the piece, and we had to use real thin branches.
We got to the end after about 2 or 3 weeks of work.
