How can something be considered a work of art when it cannot be seen or touched? This is a question one art professor has found a way to answer. And he has agreed to use Augusta State University as his canvas.

As part of the city’s first Westobou Festival, ASU will be a venue for several art exhibits, one of which will display the “invisible art form” of University of Georgia Associate Professor of Art RG Brown III.

Mr. Brown creates artworks that involve burying forms under the earth, scanning the buried objects with sonar equipment, and then using that imagery as documentation for gallery-based artworks.

Earlier this month, a hole was excavated on campus, and Mr. Brown, with the assistance of several art students, constructed a foam boat and placed it underground. For three days (Aug. 29-Sept.1), surveys and scans of the area were conducted to create digital images. These digital works of art will be on display during the Westobou Festival (Sept.18-27) and at an exhibition being held in the New Space Galley in Washington Hall in October. On Friday, Sept. 19, at 3 p.m., Mr. Brown will give an artist talk, which will be held in 170 University Hall.

Also on display will be four traditional African canoes, two dug out and two plant style, that were commissioned as part of a Fulbright project the artist did in West Africa. Two will be placed in front of the Maxwell Theatre, and two in front of Washington Hall. The boats will be on display from Friday, Sept. 11, until Friday, Nov. 7.

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