For my degree project I am going to continue to use the materials that I used for my project last year, wood and rope primarily and perhaps concrete and metal. I intend to simplify my practice to simply exploring material, and also find a suitable format to present my work that is simply interesting enough to engage with.
Finding a format to present these materials, and finding a suitable sculpture or shape will be the beginning of my work. I will be exploring different shapes, patterns and material combinations trying to find something engaging, something that is interesting to look at and perhaps even to touch. An artist that deals with this well is Carl Andre.
Carl Andre’s arrangement of object into interesting patterns provides visual engagement and pleasure for the viewer and this is exactly what I hope to do…
Andre’s work uses similar materials to my own work, arranging raw materials into sculptural patterns. A lot of his work is intended to be engaged with, like walking over a floor of copper squares for example. For me this is a good way to get the viewer to interact with a material, and to explore a material as the artist did when making the work. This is what my practice is about. At the moment I do not know if I want to create something specifically with the intention of viewer interaction.
