Nota Bene

The word ‘art’ is inscribed in landscape architecture. We can say that art is a way to really help to ornament space

for our imagination. The landscape consists of people where the implant its views, ideas and taste. It is the sum of the artefacts and at the same time they are living organism, in which people live, making constant changes, modifications. In human beings lie need for beauty, and communication with art. Some-times the park and its natural surroundings, or cemetery, overgrown tombs and its texture can help us to stimulate our imagination. Art-ists and art students as they are looking for inspirations they try to search for textures, shapes, colour and interesting lighting. So places such as old cemeteries are actually re-ally interesting places to start this journey.

‘Amidst a languid, lazy afternoon, my dance with light and shadow suddenly begins.A true race against time in changing scenery.

At one moment, from a multitude of elements, a picture emerges - the one. It is mine.

And In a moment it’s gone,because what was light becomes shadow, which unexpectedly turns into a bright

beam.After a while, a rhythm establishes itself, common for the perceived and the perceiv-

ing.

The journey. It is an autumn afternoon, even we are able to feel that the winter is coming; the sun gives the feeling of warmth. So I decided to take out my camera, and go for a walk. I passed the park and just as I was about to go back home I saw the little gates in the wall. Curiosity followed me there, and as I entered this ‘mysterious’ place I realized this was an old cemetery. Around myself I was able to see trees which started to lose their leaves, the ground was filled with pallet of coloured leaves, and the light coming through the trees left amazing shadows on the tombs. Usually this place which is remembered as a sign of death, pain and lost. But as I was looking at it everything changed. It seemed to be created with a different matter. The soft light created the feeling that the place was still alive. Cemeteries are full of emotions and give us different moods, for everyone this jour-ney would be different, some people would think

about past, some about present. Also I found it really interesting as it proved that every time we pass some place it can give us different emotions. And that sometimes we don’t really have to look far for inspirations. So my advise to all read-ers is to keep your eyes wide open, see how the light and surrounding change through the time.

Wynn Bullock, who is recog-nized as one of a handful of visionary photographers work-ing along the California coast

after the War, whose images command im-mediate attention across the spectrum of popular and serious academic audiences. He was an American Photographer who lived between 1902 and 1975, and became a well recognized master of 20th century photog-raphy. He is notable for his photographs of nudes and landscapes of West Coast. In his work Wynn kept challenging both himself and his medium. As he grew in awareness and understanding, he also grew his creative expression. Wynn Bullock is one of the most amazing photographers, giving many inspi-rations to new generations. As he once said;

‘I didn’t want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature’

this statement showed new way of thinking, so looking at his point of view, as we are walking through cemeteries or parks we should look at textures, layers, colour and light as those places

could tell us a different story everytime we walk past them. People are impressed of the way he is playing with light and shadows, Bullock himself admitted that this is very important for him; ‘I have always loved light... Its manifestations serve as symbols of the greatest secrets of unknown. Creativity has enabled me to probe and reveal step by step the unknown. Even though I know I can only travel a short distance, every step in that direction is a transcendental experience’.His way of thinking encouraged his further ideas, and gave his work some kind of mys-tery and people strongly agree with his state-ment, as the light is what makes world around us more interesting, and gives us a opportu-nity to capture the great moments. Bullock’s work is full of different moods and emotions.

wynn Bullock.References:

As you are walking through streets of Birmingham you are able to discover urban ephemera of

signs, symbols, graffiti and advertisings. Actually this is a creative edge of the city, where young people, or either profession-als try to leave some kind of inprint behind themselves. This artistic expression is seen through the streets if Birmingham. But what interests me the most is seeing these street art works as playing the treasure hunt, as actually some of them are hidden or placed in areas we would never expect them to be. So personally everytime I explore something new I get thrills of excitement.

“Engaging young people in the regeneration of Birmingham through street art”Network rail is transforming Birmingham New Street into a station fit for a 21st century city. The redeveloped station will create jobs, stimulate regeneration and open up new pe-destrians links across the city centre including a new station entrance on Hill station, which will allow people to communicate quicker through the city.

Regeneratedis a local project which taps into Birmingham’s wealth and creative talent to produce works of art in areas of redevelopment by pairing young people with professional artists. This project asked artists working on this project to create work based around the themes of movement, regeneration and reflection. It is interesting as each artist have interpreted this brief having different inspirations and wide range of influ-ences and on top of it bringing their own style into the project.

Find out more about the artist’s work on Hill street:

*Pupils of King Edward VI Sheldon Heath Academy.*Juice 126*Julian Kimmings*Sola*Remi/Rough*Zoot

The Bull Ring is a major commercial area of Birmingham, England. It has been

an important feature of Birmingham since the middle Ages, when its market was first held. Two shopping centres have been built in the area; in the 1960s, and then in 2003; the latter is styled as one word, Bullring. In the fact the current shopping centre was the busiest in the United Kingdon in 2004 with 26.5 million visitors, and as we believe the new architecture attracted most of them, and still is one of the most interesting buildings in Birmingham In the design both architects and designers wanted to mix both traditional market activity with modern retail units, and it was opened as a ‘Bullring’ on 4th September 2003. The main designer for the new centre was Benoy. It is interesting as the shopping centre links two huge mall (East and West) together by an underground passage, and whole shop-ping area is sheltered by a glass roof known as the SkyPlane which covers 7,000 square metres and appears to have no visible means of support. Also the balustrades in the East Mall consist of integrated glass within the metal framework and are of different colours formed through polyester powder coating.Yet, The housing branch of Selfridges fea-tures a landmark building who was designed by the Future Systems architectural practice, and inspirited by a sequinned dress by Paco Rabanne. And like the dress the building is made of discs, although in this case it is 15,000 shiny aluminium discs.The Selfridges store has won eight awards including the RIBA Award for Architecture 2004 and Destination of the Year Retail Week Awards 2004.

Bullring.