Yesterday felt like a very productive day in the studio, I was really getting into working with the materials and I felt that one of my older sculptures was a really good reference point for a new work..
I made the older one with an interest in how the plain wood worked against the loosely painted red bits of wood, I was thinking about the idea of something being intentionally left before it is fully covered and how that might be a subtle and interesting way of incorporating colour into my sculptures….
This led to me trying out paint along the thinner side of the wood and although it was no longer loosely painted the effect of the thin coloured side against the plain would was very striking, it began to look almost as if the plain wood was a shadow.
I suppose these works are exploring how I can create work regardless of how well they ‘fit in’ with other things I have made, they are a direct observation of how sculpture works in a space… I have always been fascinated by the way an object can affect a space, even if the object is really small or in one corner etc… I dismissed this as just an inevitable element of creating sculpture but I am starting to think about how this is actually a really massive part of why I make work.
Another student mentioned that while I am working in my studio I am having to work around the objects, stepping inside the triangle again and again as I paint things and make decisions about the work. He also said that no one can ever be sure with my objects whether they are fixed together or what will happen if they are touched… I am really interested in this idea and happy that they have this effect, a lot of what I am thinking about when I am creating the work is whether they need to be attached to the wall or the floor… leaning wood on the wall has led to various experiments with my work and I think that in making people unsure about their stability it gives the work a kind of life, a power that further dictates how you can experience them in a space and the space itself.
They completely dictate how I can interact with my own studio space.
