This first block has been so open ended. I have produced theories of what I may need to actualize so as to bring ideas to fruition, but in the journey, and having spent a lot of time away from the studios, I have been challenged to think of making work in other ways.
There has been a lot of focus on the virtual space too. Being an active maker of things, whether paintings, sculpture or film, I have always perceived that the work I create, should, end up residing in some physical space.
Considering the physical space brings about its own opportunities to explore what that means and how we relate and understand that space. These very same conditions reveal to me that I am very much a traditionalist when it comes to thinking about how we interact with art. So as my degree goes on, I can see how the development of my material perceptions are fixed in the space of the physical.
But this is not to say that I am not able to explore the virtual too. I am finding that over the course of the term I find making work for virtual spaces slightly contrived. I am intrigued that there seems to be a more visceral sense of the audience in the virtual space, as opposed to say, a gallery or some other physical space, I guess there is less of a social connection element to the gallery, a disconnect that operates outside of the social sphere.
In fact as I am writing this, I am realising that there is maybe something to explore in this line of thought? What separates the social from the being of the shared art space…?
