How does memory built through repetition and is there a point in the copy of the pre-formed.
As a sculptor my preoccupation lies within form and how form lives in and influences space and place.
As a drawing artist, my focus is on observing and re-tracing form. I use drawing to collect ‘data’ that I often forget again or perhaps this ‘data’ of form goes somewhere else in my memory, it becomes an imagined movement, fragmented details that I can’t visualise fully even if I would try to put it all together as a puzzle.
Rather than experiencing this as a loss, I notice the additional imagining of place, time, and context. Through repeated observation of the pre-formed Cornish pebble, my memory imagines the place of origin and the geology as much as I try to memories its physical details.
Today I am sharing with you two drawings of different origins.
Image 1:
This pebble has been with me for months now and at times I get bored with it and I constantly try to find ways to explore yet undiscovered aspects.
Image 2&3:
This drawing repeats one little crack in the rock over and over again. The light is my focus and my limitation.
I partly copy the pre-formed another big part of the drawing lies within the feeling of a formless force, represented in the light.
Image 4:
Here is a drawing that is anchored in the memory of what I have observed previously. For me it is like shining a torch inside my memory, anything I try to remember here is dreamlike and layered and it is here that I imagine the place and history of the pebble as well as a movement of form.
I admit it is not easy to put all of this into words but I thought I see what happens over time and in the weeks to come whilst I am still working with this one little rock from Cornwall.
Drawings and a sculpture of mine are part of Wander_Land, an exhibition by members of the Royal Society of Sculptors at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens and Gallery, near Penzance Cornwall, UK
1st July-5th August 2023
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