Accumulation: Week #11

How does it all get there?

Accumulation: Week #10

secret

This is for Leeann.

New Sculptures- Projects1

Just finished. There are three sculptures mixed in together.

This Is An X

Garden of Stone (Goldsworthy)

Perhaps Goldsworthy is just nice. He perceives everything to be this great cosmic dance. He his work is concentrated on the idea of birth and death cycles. Creation of the memorial is not an aberration, but a chance to continue his thoughts in a different environment. He deals with the balance of nature through time and cycles. This outlook is extremely spiritual and could not manifest itself in someone that did not believe in spirituality. So to create this memorial he merely channeled himself into the work to achieve, what is in a sense, a piece of poetry. Those who do not share this similar sense of spirituality will likely never understand it.

public sculpture manifesto

I'm not sure of what i think about this. I, of course, agree with most of what is written. There should be a greater understanding of visual forms of communication. But where things get tricky is when there certain parties that need to be satisfied by public art. Much of this is in relation to politics and finances. Very little can be done to change this unless you would like to change a larger segment of society that affects this smaller aspect. Public art is just like other areas of the arts. That which has the greatest appeal will always prosper. Much of the time this appeal has little to do with the actual work itself, but rather how the work integrates into the overall social context and agendas. What is sad to say is that as being a visual artist there is a different view of the world and many times what we see is not what others see.