Week 2 of blogging and just realising the importance of reading and commenting on others posts. Enjoyed getting feedback on my work, so will read and comment after this.
The week has been tinged with doubt and despondency, as an external processor I think I don’t work well in isolation. The final year here in Barnsley is characterised by the notable absence of most students, and the weather has compounded this recently. I am working on the maquettes for a 3-D fabric sculpture of the cloth/shroud in one of Reubens’ Deposition paintings. The lack of a fully posable small scale model frustrates me – Action Man just doesn’t cut it – too stiff. Artists wooden model covered in cling film ok but a bit light. Resorted to a mouldsil rubber female figure I made last year, held in impossible pose by strings.
I feel much encouraged today having talked it over with Steve West, the Sculpture tutor, and am resolved to go large as soon as I have ordered the scaffolding. Also thinking to crossfertilise this work with photography, using the same pose but with lights attached to the body – producing a “light sculpture” photo, if long exposures are used. My husband was obligingly covered with blue led lights and posed,l whilst wobbling about to get the trails of blue light…
Still no word on 2nd draft of dissertation on Bill Viola’s The Passions -anyone else studying him?
