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10/30/2005: "Sculpture"

It's been a busy day, working on the sculpture I'm doing for one of my modules. I have carved and sanded nearly all day. Now my wrists are so sore I have to stop but read on if you are interested in knowing what I'm working on...

The idea is from our brief (Virginia Woolf's "Solid Objects" in Street Haunting, Penguin 2005 pp35-42) which is a short story about a man who starts to collect found objects and how this eventually becomes an obsession. The story begins at the beach and the whole idea put me in mind of the sea and how things on a beach are worn away. It got me thinking about pebbles and sand and that everything on a beach has come from somewhere. The main idea is that the things we find are so worn away that they are often barely recognisible but that everything has come from something tangible, whether it is large, small, living or dead. My sculpture will depict pebbles (all made from plaster then carved) with the odd recognisible object scattered amongst them (faces mainly and the odd more worn object, less recognisible). The pieces will gradually change in size from medium to small pebble then fading away into the distance into sand (i've kept all the carving shavings to depict the grains from the pebbles). I haven't worked out how to finally install it because ideally i'd like to fill a big space - a whole floor the audience can walk amongst - with the pebbles fading away into the distance, but in reality I've made less than 100 pebbles so I'll have to do a v small scaled down version ... anyway, a couple of thumbnails of a bit of work in progress.