My work has reached a sort of cross roads. This has come about due to reflections on the idea of progress , i am and have always been in a way torn between two disciplyns- sculpture and painting, and it has arisen that in both i have different ideas of progress. Over all my work in short tends to deal with the body as a vessel for memory... this had branched off to the box[see earlier posts ] and was headed in the sculptural idea of progress which comes automatically to me ... i was considering different materials- dispite my attachment to paper- materials that indicate warmpt, security, insulative, protective.
However at the moment im choosing to pull bach a bit and re examine my work so far in order to find a way to make it better without automatically viewing the sculptural element as the progress..... i would be lying if i said that this was easy for me, but i would also be lying if i said i was not glad to delay my absence from paper......
In short i am taking it as a challenge. i am also doing alot of life drawing at the moment- which a really LOVE. i tend to be making the drawings as focused , expressive and free... in places leaving out sections and letting the viewer fill them in... this is something i want to bring into my work more
Upon looking at the box's ect more closely [alongside my lovely tutors] i have found that they feel a but too perscriptive, didactic towards the audience- this is hard for me because i have alot of time for subtalty in Art, even if i am not perhaps the most subtal of people. thinking about my work as being too obvious actually HURTS- but ill deal...... I think that maybe moving outside the body to its outer form through life drawing alongside thinking of anatomy and biology in a less illustrative manner may help this along. Im trying to challange my automatic sectioning of the body more, perhaps try to dissect in a less controled manner... represent it as i feel it to be rather than in the medical fashion that i seem to be relying on......
I also learned to stretch paper.... cant wait to explore that... im thinking about my use of colour, challenge myself more, use it in new ways [for me] - not just to map out areas of space.....
At this moment in time im trying to figure out how my work lost its emotion and got so sterile- medical.... i think i need to write more.... the body as a repository for memory... still like the idea of fabric boxs- soft sculpture... maybe remodel the bra- is it still an element
ok i need to think more- is it about all bodies or is it primarily a female experience
my digital camera broke, but picture soon i promise
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