For the art oriented souls / para los orientados al arte
Link to a short video about appreciating natural beauty through science, by Richard Feyman (corto video en inglés sobre la apreciación de la belleza de la naturaleza a travez de la ciencia):
Paint and colors / Pintura y colores
For centuries humans have been using the soil as a source of different pigments like red and yellow ochre, and magnesium oxide used for pottery, houses, and body paints.
Durante siglos, los humanos han utilizado el suelo como fuente de diferentes pigmentos, como el ocre rojo y amarillo y el óxido de magnesio utilizados para cerámica, casas y pinturas corporales.
- Kirsten Kurtz – Soil Painting
- The art of soil painting – Art & Wine magazine
- Karen Vaughan – The Art of Soil: How One Scientist Uses Earth’s Pigments to make Art. Orion Magazine.
- Using Soil to Make Art – Smithsonian magazine
- Jan Lang – Painter Expresses Her Love of the Land – Soil Horizons magazine
- Soilscape Studio
- Janis Lang – The Soil Colors of the Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail
- Ken Van Rees – From soil scientist to soil artist
- Deborah Foutch – Art Rooted in the Earth
- Tina Blau – Stones, Soil, Grasses. Wikimedia
- David Sheil – Soil art
- Herman de Vries – from earth: stiftland
- Painting with Soil – NRCS lessons
- Soil colors of the continental United States – NRCS
Soil sculpture / Escultura con suelo
- Dorodango – Bruce Gardner
- Buck the Cubicle: Hikaru Dorodango
Story telling / Narrativa
Soil music / Música sobre suelo
- Tierra, Tan Sólo – Marta Gómez
- ‘You Are What You Eat’ (Song for Soil) – Charlie Mgee Live, Permaculture Day 2015
- Soil Conservation Song – Untamed Science K-5
- The Soil Song – Jeremy Newton-John
- Dust Cain’t Kill Me – Woody Guthrie
- Singing sand dunes / la canción de las dunas de arena: The song of the dunes
- Songs for our soils. How soil themes have been represented in popular song
Soil poetry / Poesía al suelo
Poesía en español
English poetry
- I pledge allegiance – Gary Snyder
- Prairie Spring – Willa Cather
- This Compost – Walt Whitman
- When Love – Alicia Ostriker
- Nothing Wants to Suffer – Danusha Laméris
- Soil in Science and Poetry – Melody Winnig
- In Time Of Cloudburst – Robert Frost
- Song of Myself – Walt Whitman
Land art (Earthworks) / Arte con tierra (paisaje)
- 15 Essential Works of Land Art
- Pattern Dug into Ground
- Earth Art
- On The National Mall, An American Portrait In Sand And Soil
Articles and blogs about soil and art / Artículos sobre suelos y arte
- Do we need more soil art? Matthias C. Rillig
- Case studies of soil in art – Soil Journal (PDF)
- The Representation of Soil in the Western Art: From Genesis to Pedogenesis (PDF)
Image on top of page: Tina Blau – Stones, Soil, Grasses