Green Sand Trap
Art in Golf 2012
Dorado Beach Resort’s east golf course’s periphery. Artistic intervention on one of the sand traps, covered entirely with organic green dye.It upsets the rules of the game [golf] and the ecosystem’s modification made by the course’s designers while intervening as the mimicry some animals possess, camouflage. Chemi Rosado’s piece, Trampa de Arena Verde (Green Sand Trap), is not a sculpture that utilizes physical materials for Rosado dressed up as an activist gardener and covered several sand traps of the golf course in organic green dye with the intention of having grass grow. As a way to challenge the golfer’s eye, from a certain distance the sand trap was distinguishable. Nevertheless, after several weeks it [sand trap] ended up blending with the environment as a way of somehow allowing nature to take control of the surroundings.
“The idea is to question and underline our relationship with nature while changing and affecting the game’s [golf] sociology by disappearing the sand traps to play with the golfer’s eyes as he sets his goals into the hole”.