Development: A Journey Back Into the Hood/s
I’ve been sat here in the basement of the Annex looking at how things are, now I have filmed myself breaking most of the hoods. (see blog December 4 https://www.stuleeart.com/meth1nq/2021/4/12/evaluation-investigations-of-meaning)
The objects/works I have left (fig. 1) still seem to ignite the desire to further explore the potentiality within their being as ‘things.’
Fig.1, Three works on display in the basement to help gain sense of objects in a setting.
So coming back after the third lockdown has opened up the chance to explore the facilities at the university.
One way for me to challenge my comfort zone of making is to try throwing some pots in the ceramics room. I find my temperament isn’t the best match, due to my spontaneous, arbitrary and capricious nature.
yet I am finding that the chance to discover where my limitations become assets in the sense that I want to explore the materiality of clay body, and gain a sense of the Aperion, the limitless nature of shape and how that may bring a link to some other unknown form.
What does a blue banana say that a yellow one cannot. I am thinking of the Andy Warhol exhibition I saw at Tate Gallery after the first Lockdown, especially the Chairman Mao, particularly the purple version that was on display (fig. 1)
