This week we are looking at sculpture and the poetics of materials used within it, what they say and how they can enhance a piece. We have begun this by going into the workshop and being given the basic materials of square wooden dowel and cardboard. The first session with this consisted with us "playing" with the materials, seeing what forms we could create and if anything excited us. I wanted to see if I could bend the wood but keep it still attached, so I would not have to rely on glue holding things together. I found that if you partially cut down on it you can bend it to a shape with slowly starts making a square spiral shape. Once I had made a few of these it began looking like the Fibonacci sequence. This formed a great connection to what I had previously been doing, as it is a natural sequence and one about how things are made up, formed. I created a small sculpture using these spirals and included cardboard within the piece. I wanted it to look organic. For a time it looked like the green steams that come from pumpkins when they are in the early stages of life. However, the further I went with this the more it looked to me like an octopus. This was then all I could see and I felt that they're was no getting away from it. Nevertheless, I then thought about the idea of threading. I got some, around 1 meter long, dowel and threaded them through. This gave a more interesting sculpture but because of the harsh edges it made it look more man made and not organic. The complete opposite of what I wanted. So I put this aside and began again. I got three long sticks and began cutting into them, making them look gnarled. Once I had these three sticks I wanted to use the large spirals that I had created beforehand. I then put these inside the triangular pyramid I had made and had some threading through the outer sticks.
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April 2016
Kerry FosterThird Year Fine Art Student at Falmouth School of Art. Fellow artists: |