Compasses are brilliantly useful but they can sometimes lead us astray, because of two quite different problems called declination (or variation) and deviation.

The magnetic compass is the most familiar compass type. It functions as a pointer to "magnetic north", the local magnetic meridian, because the magnetized needle at its heart aligns itself with the horizontal component of the Earth's magnetic field. The magnetic field exerts a torque on the needle, pulling the North end or pole of the needle approximately toward the Earth's North magnetic pole, and pulling the other toward the Earth's South magnetic pole.[8] The needle is mounted on a low-friction pivot point, in better compasses a jewel bearing, so it can turn easily. When the compass is held level, the needle turns until, after a few seconds to allow oscillations to die out, it settles into its equilibrium orientation.

Your duty as a successful artist is to not only make a person feel through your work, but also make them feel through your words.

Trees are exceedingly useful. They clean our air, cool our communities, and make the landscape beautiful. We use them for food, shade, building material, fuel, erosion control, barriers, and many other things. Some look at trees and see an art medium, a canvas to express something we wouldn't otherwise see. And there are quite a few different ways of using trees as art.

Artistic vision is a prophetic understanding of what can be whose foundation is built on what was. It is not how we see the world but how we want the world to see though our eyes.

It's often hard or impossible to see the texture in a photo of a painting, as it doesn't show unless there's light shining in from the side that catches the ridges and casts small shadows. Don't guess; if you don't see any texture, don't try to talk about it in that particular painting. Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action... Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

LAND ART, WHEN NATURE SPEAKS, IN OUR LANGUAGE, ABOUT ITSELF.

Land art, also known as Earthwork, is not a stream of art, or even an artistic movement, it is instead a circumstantial activity between nature and man. It emerged towards the end of the 60s as a trend that sought to transform the landscape into the artist’s material. And regardless of the fact that neither a manifesto nor a specific style exists, and that its purpose differs depending on the artist, there is an essential thing shared by all the land art works: the landscape, even if intervened, can only speak of itself.