I was working on a series of maps/flow diagrams that enable me to reflect on the processes involved in making the studies on gesture (the limits of the bodies) and on alternative painting tools.
First, I was jotting. I tried to restore the processes and examine them closer. How did I make decisions? What actions accompanied this process?
I needed to think about how my physical actions might be represented as a diagram on paper. And about this last word ... "on paper" ... Why on paper ?! It is boring, not representative. Do you want to see another arrow chart? I always thought that I was unique, but I learned from books on psychology that every person think, this way about himself. Therefore, I not sure that my diagram on paper might be anything different from the diagram of Ian, Maria or Lin Chuang. Therefore, I decided to experiment.
At first, I translate one of the sketches into object language. Take my experience as a basis. Use my stereotypes of the past as a starting point, and start to destroy them.
But my first college test didn't work out, so I kept thinking/doing further.
I had "a tortured" piece of gypsum. I worked with it so long and experimented with it that it ended up looking like something unknown and smeared in paint. I thought it was the perfect start. Heavy foundation, knowledge, base.
And then the process began, exactly which I must to represent. When the new piece was ready, I thought that maybe it is only for me a representation of the process of creation. Here is the base, here is the building/creating process - wooden sticks, there are the elements that are not clear, but they hold the entire structure. And in the end, it is a mysterious beast, a mutant that bears eggs.
But where is the diagram?
And then I remembered how for ten years I made such summary charts about sales.
I opened PowerPoint and started creating diagrams, and then I drew a parallel with reality.
My altar:
In front of me, on the wall, were paper cuttings and the altar. These were the things that I love or significant to me. I made this "composition" at the beginning of this course for inspiration and analysis. Next to it was a failed composition of a mixture of different objects. Next to it was my mysterious beast.
I decided to make a diagram directly from real objects.
As a result, the first part is the accumulated experience. The second part is the actions and emotions that are not material. So I represented them as a projection. If there is no me who switches on this film, then there are no these processes. And the third part is the final work.
The size of the whole work varies. The size of the sculpture - 75H 35W 95L cm. Materials: plaster, wood, paper, scotch tape, hot glue, nails, construction foam, paint, varnishes, an ultraviolet lamp.
Words are used for the description of the processes involved in making art: be intense, think, getting messy, dance, letting go, love, imaging, nail, learn, travel, contrast, invent, surf the Internet, eat, describe, steal, have sex, construct, cry, stitch, cast, oppose, enjoy.
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