I had a group tutorial at college last week. It was quite a rewarding experience for me - I felt able to objectively comment constructively on my peers work and also see my own work for the development it has progressed through.
And my tutor was helpful!!
As I have gone along I have been taking photographs of my work - the photographs are close ups and have a quality about them that does not seem to be present in the actual work......how to capture the essence of the photograph in my work?
What do the photographs say that the work is not?
I have let this mull around in my head...well I say ' mull' more like 'torment'! I stare and stare at them as I try to figure out whats missing in my pieces that I manage to capture in the images.....
I think it is the chaos.
My work is representation of the chaos that is my head, my life and yet the pieces I make are small, unimposing, quietly intrusive. The words that have come to mind as I have been making have been 'organic', 'emerging', 'creeping' 'intrusive' and yet the pieces I have made recently are anything but......
I go back to the stitches hanging in the air - they were organic and creepy and intrusive. Maybe that is why I love them so much - they interrupt the space, they intrude and say 'look at me, I make you uncomfortable'
My latest knitted wire piece is more architectural - in that it is using the walls and corners, drawing attention to these spaces but it is unintrusive, it is quiet and inside me the chaos is screaming to get out.
As I have been researching and visiting exhibitions and reading about other sculptors I notice how the works that grab me are the ones that shout - look at me!, they are in the way they are not quietly saying excuse me.....and maybe the scale of my work does not justify the chaos is comes from...maybe it is time to upscale and finally get out of myself the mess so that others can truly understand......
Thursday, 2 December 2010
Saturday, 20 November 2010
Back On Line
It has been a while.
I took some time off over the summer.
Back now. Final Year. Dissertation. Final Piece. And out into the world.
This year is busy! Much to do. College seems incidental to what else is going on and yet I am still learning - I will alwalys learn, I am in awe of how much life has to teach me.
So - dissertation - my dissertation is about space, how it used in art and how it affects our emotions. I am looking specifically at the psychogeography and supermodern movements. I love it! And I want to write which I guess is half the battle won - the other half is finding the time in amongst children, job, house, life, practice....
Practice - I am constructing forms from 'knitted' wire. I use the word knitted loosely as its not a unifirm knit but I am using needles to construct the forms. Like my stitched piece last year it is constructed and the form emerges as opposed to being thought up and built.
At the same time I am trying to develop my professional practice. I am now working as a project coordinator setting up arts activities for disabled people - very challenging but I am learning much. I am trying to set myself up an after school art club for experience too and am trying to figure out what to do about my Art Therapy MA. In life I am moving house! Bring it on!
I took some time off over the summer.
Back now. Final Year. Dissertation. Final Piece. And out into the world.
This year is busy! Much to do. College seems incidental to what else is going on and yet I am still learning - I will alwalys learn, I am in awe of how much life has to teach me.
So - dissertation - my dissertation is about space, how it used in art and how it affects our emotions. I am looking specifically at the psychogeography and supermodern movements. I love it! And I want to write which I guess is half the battle won - the other half is finding the time in amongst children, job, house, life, practice....
Practice - I am constructing forms from 'knitted' wire. I use the word knitted loosely as its not a unifirm knit but I am using needles to construct the forms. Like my stitched piece last year it is constructed and the form emerges as opposed to being thought up and built.
At the same time I am trying to develop my professional practice. I am now working as a project coordinator setting up arts activities for disabled people - very challenging but I am learning much. I am trying to set myself up an after school art club for experience too and am trying to figure out what to do about my Art Therapy MA. In life I am moving house! Bring it on!
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