Having cleared out my studio space and repainted I feel pleased to see my scultpures in a new light. I feel that through creating more of these forms I have found a artistic way of working to produce my own forms. I would be lying if I was to say I completely understand them myself at this point but this is what interests me as they are challenging and I feel this is a unique and useful place to be as a artist and is pushing me to make bolder decisions, like introducing bold and gestural colours. This set up shows a first experiment to be devloped of how best to present my sculptures which I will develop in the summer term.
The above sculpture is simply balanced. I had attached the last stacked sculpture however I feel that the fact this is balanced adds a interesting quality. I also find the odd forms of this sculpture effective and the off balance proportions of the top and bottom pieces.
In my studio space I have also set up my large pattern drawings to cover one wall to experiment with how they appear when they are repeated and built up. This is also to show the range of pattern and line types clearly.
Next steps:
From this stage I will now be working on pieces and ideas to resolve ready for the 'Unearthed' degree show in June. I am intending that I will create a installation environment which will showcase my sculptures I have been working on over the year. This environment will be clean and entirely one colour with selective lighting. The cielings will be lowered to be of a uncomfortable height which will feel repressive and further distrupt a sense of scale. By doing this I also hope to create a environment which will create echos with movement, this may involve thinking through and testing of how best to do this. My intention for the viewer is that this should be a individual experience and therefore I hope to restrict how many people may enter at once.
I feel this is all part of the journey I have taken during starting this new focus in my practice to focus on the landscape and rock forms. From beginning from admiration and fascination with the natural world it has taken a long journey. Having taken myself through a path of exploring new places in search of inspiration to making works which represent aspects of the landscape its spiritual links through cairns and coin logs I have now arrived at a end which I would not have predicted. Through this I have found that I have created works which are able to even make myself uncomfortable and are odd, however in my reproduction and investment in these large forms gives them a new status as an object of their own right. They are artifical and awkward and I feel that represents the darker side of the themes I am exploring as human experience of the natural world has become increasingly falsified, manufactured and commodified. I myself am not excluded from this. I hope to develop these ideas further as I reflect back over the themes I have explored in this project to come to a conclusive end to present in the exhibition.