KAB130 Week 3 Task 1Studio Presence/Absence WITH NOTES

Presence/Absence

The idea here was to use a wooden block with dowels and make something without conventional fixings.

we worked with a subtractive process, taking material away as we want along and then combined the two volumes into a developed form.

I was thinking about physical presence as a conceptual approach to the making, but as we ran out of time at the end of the studio, and due to the slow nature of the subtractive wood forming medium, I felt that this was closer to a emotional absence than physical presence, though after some time past I realized that it was only my personal perception of the piece and being influenced by the process rather than the sculpture demonstrating this idea.

Notes from lecture.

Presence: physical existence of something in the 3 d space. impact, postivive space, filled in space.

Physical – size and material

Emotional – evoke responses and connections

Conceptual – present ideas

Interactive - participataion

Absence: the voids or pieces that are missing. Implied something have been taken away or sucked out.

Physical absence

Emotional absence – loss emptyess

Conceptual – missing part of life -  what is missing or unseen

Temporal absence – gradual decay

Negative space: series of voids in the work but also space around the work.

Key skills: speaking about the forms

Elements of sculpture and relationship between those elements: plane, space lines…

Relations (recipe): the way the elements combine.

Relations:

Balance

Direction and movement

Rhythm and scale

Proportion

Axis

Visual analysis is the description plus the interpretation

You seek things that are hidden and draw them out of their environment.