New Direction!

Well finals are finally over. Now I have time to blog again. Sorry about the lack of blogging, but I’ve been really busy over the past few weeks.

A friend of mine in one of my art classes, Kerry, suggested I try taking the ideas behind a current series of prints that I made and apply them to sculpture. I realize that the stuff that I had been doing on a flat surface could easily be done in sculpture! There are two ways I’ll be doing this:

Rotation
The whole aesthetic behind sculpture is that you can walk 360 degrees around a sculpture. Therefore I postulate that I can create a statue that looks like one object in one direction, then as you continue to walk around it, features will reveal themselves to be part of another image!

Shadows
This one totally takes advantage of a sculpture! Paintings DON’T cast shadows, but sculptures do. Now lets say if a light hit a sculpture at a certain angle, the shadow cast by it might resemble a picture of something entirely different upon the ground. I think this one has more promise than the former since its more unusual- most people don’t really consider a piece’s shadow when they build a statue, and why would they? Most of them are abstract. Try Jun Kaneko- brilliant artist, he makes MASSIVE sculptures! Mass is his aesthetic. He doesn’t take shadows into account.
I’m juggling a few ideas in my head… one is where I cast a harsh light in a certain direction and the light points on the sculpture itself resemble an image, a second is where the shadow cast at a certain time of the day creates an image, a third is where its silhouette creates a new image.
I love being a trickster. Hopefully that’s the reputation I’ll develop as an artist.

Sorry for keeping you guys waiting. Hopefully Matthew will come over to my apartment and help me take pictures of my new stuff sometime so I can publish it for the web. My pictures are always so shaky and blurry!

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