"I am creating an installation using cotton thread - weaving two large chip-boards together and possibly some sort of kite motif too. Scary not quite knowing what the final piece will actually be! I think the process is probably something like writing poetry - only with materials and in a 3D space. I seem to have moved towards the idea of installation. A set space (as a parameter and container) for an idea both visual and conceptual. This has been liberating, as it frees me from the idea (held somewhat unconsciously) that I have to paint to be a real artist. I have learnt that I'm not a painter! And I'm not very good at drawing in the traditional sense. However it's exciting to realise that threading cotton across a space IS a form of drawing! For me is suspect that sculpture in its broadest sense is a way forward because it involves a more complete physical engagement. I love dance and feel it brings more of me together, more of my being. And so I have been pondering on the relationship between the body and its expression as art. Obviously dance in itself is an art form. But the body as dancer can also express itself into form through the plastic arts through intimacy with materials, adaptation of space and form and though dynamic play."
Here are the photos of the making of the final construction:
Threading Guteman Cotton through chip board. Up and down ladders!
Side views butting up against other students work:
The final piece!
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