I decided to return to Fracture, Form, Frame as I respond to the Case Study.
I’ve left this project on the ‘shelf’ as I focussed on research and my Contextual study draft.
I would like to continue the project using the found building material together with wire, armature and sculpting clay. As I assemble the material, I aim to assemble them in a way that represents my ‘inner landscape’ over the past 5 months. Perhaps ‘in search of silence’ would be a good title but we will have to see how it evolves.
Due to the contains I’ve had to work under for the last 5 months, the idea behind this project has just evolved very naturally and not without inner and outer resistance… During our first making day, I worked intuitively with the materials and ended up creating a backdrop of building material with a wire sculpture in the shape of a figure that seems to have a frustrated gesture. This felt appropriate but I wasn’t sure how to take it further. As the weeks past, my work and materials just laid out on the floor, my ideas started to formulate together with the reading I started to do. Influenced by my circumstances and the work of Robert Rauchenberg, I wanted to bring in a sense of chaos, disorder and loss into my work together with combining painting and sculpture.
I plan roughly to make 3 different pieces. The first will represent the sense of chaos, clutter and disorder and the second one a sense of searching and bewilderment and doubt. I would like the third piece to represent a sense of finding silence and piece and order. Through the making of this I will use the words Fracture, Form, Frame to describe the reality of loosing one’s sense of direction and the spark of creativity in the midst of a world that bring the many noises of busyness, opinions and your own fear as well as the reality of distraction in the form of social media and family life. Unless we are intentional about taking time to regroup and become quiet, we will be swept along with life and loose our ability to focus and be with our creativity. I hope that it will speak of the process of recovering and finding order and silence in order to be creative in spite of life.
I will continue with this post later this week and more photos will follow soon!