This document discusses works by artists Robert Adams, Roni Horn, Barbara Kruger and responses to their works by artist Helen Means. It summarizes Adams capturing human traces in nature and their relationship. It describes Horn's site-specific works focusing on water and mood. It outlines Kruger layering photographs with captions questioning power and control. It then discusses Means' responses to these artists through digital photographs capturing nature reclaiming structures, streams, and flowers with captions around balance and reflection.

1. Art 21 Project
Helen Means

2. Robert Adams
Santa Ana Wash, Next to Norton Air Force Base, California, 1978
Gelatin silver print, 16 x 20 inches
Frankel Gallery, San Francisco and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Robert Adams documents photographs of the American West. He captures traces of
human life in his artwork and shows a relationship between man’s influence on the
landscape and the inherent beauty found in nature.

3. Helen Means
Reclaiming, 2014
Digital photograph
My response to Robert Adams’ work was to record traces of mankind leaving a mark on
the landscape. My artwork shows a barn foundation slowly being overtaken or
reclaimed by nature again.

4. Roni Horn
Still Water (The River Thames for Example) - Image C, 1999
Offset lithograph (photograph and text combined) on uncoated paper,
30 1/2 x 41 1/2 inches
Edition of 7
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Roni Horn is an artist who emphasizes artworks that are “site-dependent”, wanting the
viewer to experience the work in the moment. One of her popular subjects is water.
The River Thames shows not only the light reflection of water, but according to Horn,
also its moodiness.

5. Helen Means
Meandering Journey, 2014
Digital photograph
My reaction to Roni Horn’s artwork is a picture of a stream that starts from an
underground spring. My photograph captures the stream about 100 yards from where it
emerges from underground and starts its journey, joining a bigger stream and eventually
the river, bay, and ocean. I find the movement of the water mesmerizing.

6. Barbara Kruger
Untitled (I shop, therefore I am), 1987
Photographic silkscreen on vinyl, 111 x 113 inches
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Kruger layers found photographs with bold captions that often deal with power and
control. She questions the viewer, having them analyze the topics further in their mind.
Untitled (I shop, therefore I am) pushes me into reflecting on my role as a consumer.

7. Helen Means
Fragile (Handle with Care), 2014
Digital photograph
My artwork shows spring blooming flowers with the caption “Fragile” showing among the
blooms. I wanted to show the beauty of nature and at the same time encourage the
viewer to reflect on their role in maintaining nature’s balance.