Creating an almost non-activity, I want you to ask yourself - 'what is going on here?' - 'where is the focus?'. I'm enjoying making more with less, how a simply rolled sheet of coloured paper, held in place by masking tape, can perform the role of a beacon, a warning for current activity and a marker of territory. Through these cones a block of polystyrene is called to our attention but it offers nothing back, a material associated with the protection of our object in focus, the object of 'worth'. If we consider the white block a plinth of sorts then we are displayed a small hand constructed balsa structure. This has clearly had the most time invested in its making, does this establish it as our 'object of focus', a sort of time = worth concept. We must not forget though that the object itself is recognised as a tool ( a little too David Ersser maybe? ) and this tool is performing its job upon our block, by seemingly clamping two smaller blocks together surely projecting the focus back onto it.
Monday, 19 October 2009
Creating an almost non-activity, I want you to ask yourself - 'what is going on here?' - 'where is the focus?'. I'm enjoying making more with less, how a simply rolled sheet of coloured paper, held in place by masking tape, can perform the role of a beacon, a warning for current activity and a marker of territory. Through these cones a block of polystyrene is called to our attention but it offers nothing back, a material associated with the protection of our object in focus, the object of 'worth'. If we consider the white block a plinth of sorts then we are displayed a small hand constructed balsa structure. This has clearly had the most time invested in its making, does this establish it as our 'object of focus', a sort of time = worth concept. We must not forget though that the object itself is recognised as a tool ( a little too David Ersser maybe? ) and this tool is performing its job upon our block, by seemingly clamping two smaller blocks together surely projecting the focus back onto it.
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Nice of you to say so x
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