Daniel Griffith - Found Art Sculptures- Part Three (Art Talk series)

On Saturday morning, November 22nd
guest artist Daniel Griffith talked about sculptures he had made.

"I grew up on a farm in Carroll County by De Witt. Every time our family went on a trip after farming, we'd go on hikes. Sometimes camping at a National Park. My mother would pick up interesting rocks and put them in the car. I got that from her."

"I recently moved back from Colorado to help out my mother and while I've been there I picked up treasures from hikes I take. We have a good size wood here. Around 80 acres. I bring stuff back to the house. Later, I'll pick out an found object of interest and start putting it together."

"I use construction adhesive for gluing. The items are pretty fragile. A leaf, turkey feathers, a dried mushroom. I work with the structure. It's all very unique. I don't put it together unless I like it."

"The other day I was helping my brother Dale split wood, when I came across a knot cut out of a tree, anything that will enhance I set aside and use for my sculptures. I call them "found art," because they are all found outside on the ground."

Rock collector David McGrew chats

with Daniel Griffith about streams
he and his kids used to walk
along looking for arrowheads.

There is a pair of Spanish Peaks in Colorado, close to where I live, called
"whyatoya." it is the Indian name for "breasts of the earth." When the peaks were being pushed up by volcanic action cracks developed and filled up with lava. Over the years there was erosion and now there is a solid rock wall dike that radiates out around the mountain. From the top of the west peak, it looks like spokes on a wheel. Some are about a mile in length.