Zen Dune Garden #2 Provincetown (artSTRAND Portfolio 2006)
Entry/Object ID
1885.009.Ph07
Description
Ranalli is a contemporary artist that grew up in Connecticut and currently resides in Cambridge and Wellfleet, MA and Tucson, AZ. He creates conceptual and environmental works that are situated in the medium of photography. This photograph is from his Zen Dune series; a collection of works inspired from his travels in Asia during the 1990s. Ranalli found inspiration in the deep sense of spirituality and the various manifestations of the Buddha. During his stay in a dune shack, he photographed large spiral designs that he traced in the sand, configurations he referred to as Zen Gardens. He found fascination with the idea of temporary art that would be erased within days by the wind and water of the coastal landscape.
Artwork Details
Medium
Color photograph (of raked sand, flora)
Acquisition
Accession
1885
Credit Line
Acquisition Fund Purchase funded by Richard and Judy Wurtman, Daniel and Judyth Katz, and David Murphy, 2007
Made/Created
Artist
Daniel Ranalli
Date made
2006
Edition
Edition
12/35
Edition Size
35
Edition Number
12
Inscription/Signature/Marks
Type
Signature
Location
LR
Type
Edition
Location
LL
Transcription
12/35
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Image
Height
8 in
Width
10 in
Dimension Description
Sheet
Height
11 in
Width
14 in
Exhibition
Solitude by the Sea: Selections from the Collection
