After what seems to have been a very long break I have returned to my studies.Although yet to be cleared by he medics I am feeling a great deal better and have been out and about taking photographs and working on the black and white abstracts for my current project.
Yesterday took the opportunity to visit The Hepworth Wakefield which, together with the permanent exhibition of some of Barbara Hepworth's work, was exhibiting work by Franz West. A lot to take in and I am still inwardly digesting what I saw and my reactions. One immediate thought was the difference between abstract sculpture and abstract photography. To be a photograph the image should be of something that was in front of the camera whereas the sculpture being 3 dimensional and the product of the sculptor's vision and interpretation does not necessarily have to be anything that exists in the real world other than itself. Whilst I need to explore this as part of the written submission necessary for the project my current thought that abstract photography is an extraction that removes an actual thing from its context and presented to the viewer in such a way as to be open to any number of interpretations.
Also visited the Yorkshire Sculpture Park offering works by other abstract sculptors. It is perhaps to state the obvious but the placing of very large figures in the middle of a large field changes how one views the sculpture itself and the facility of walking round the figure changes ones perception of its form, its internal interaction and the sense of size.
