New York artist Alan Sonfist, whose earlier works helped spearhead the movement of site-specific sculpture in the '60's and '70's, embraces sustainability and promotes it in his works, the world over. Alan's international pieces, such as 'Lost Falcon of Westphalia,' and 'Circles of Time,' have been commissioned by Prince Richard of Germany, as well as constructed on the Gori Estate in Florence, Italy, respectively. He is, perhaps, most notably acclaimed for his 'Time Landscapes' - one of the first urban forests that featured pre-Colonial plants, in Greenwich Village, NY, where he performed extensive studies to explore the historical development of a natural environment alongside the current social and cultural structures of today.
For me, a Westphalian-born anthropologist familiar with the idea of Ancestral landscapes and sites in Aboriginal Central Australia, the Lost Falcon is quite a find!
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