My work is beginning to evolve from a flat 2-dimensional surface to a more 3-dimensional object that is becoming independent of the flat object. There is a sense of emergence out of the surface.
The plaster mould that I made for the purpose of forming flat rectangle shapes has now become an object independent of it’s original task, which was to serve as a tool or a former. Through the process of working through my ideas, I’m now revisiting my previous work and I’m relocating it by putting it back into its point of origin.
My approach to materials has become more sensuous, I’m more respectful of the potential and properties that are inherent within the mediums that I employ. Previously, I may not have been so respectful as I was very much concerned with how I was going to express my idea or concept. I’m still interested in communicating ideas and concepts to the audience, but through the art objects material qualities.
This is a very Hegelian idea, Hegel believes that art inhabits a space that is somewhere in between our sensual/bodily experience and our intellectual understanding. i.e. the ‘sensual presentation of the Idea’
(‘Drawing: Towards an Intelligence of Seeing,’ by Howard Riley, from ‘Writing on Drawing’)
