Shelby Fleming 10/1/2017

Questions of the week:
How do you make a connection between your own concept and the viewer?
When you add so much personal context to a piece do you lose the viewer?
What happened to wood burning?
Why do I make art? Is it just for me or for a gallery/viewer?


Side notes of the week:
  • Repetition has been a continuous theme in my process and becomes apparent in many of my pieces. I find the process to be therapeutic and visually appealing. Repetition is also cogitative in a daily routine where there is often no interruptions or surprises. 
  • As I explore materials I am starting to realize that the viewer brings their own personal experience with that material to the piece when they are viewing it. Therefore if they had pasta for dinner the night before and they are viewing pasta in sculpture they might make a different contextual connection than I intended.
  • I am also interested in how scale will change the viewers understanding and relationship to the piece.

Artist of the week:

Ann Hamilton Body/ Object Series 1984

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 Hamilton combines performance, video, music, photographs, and textiles into a single installation. In these performances Hamilton explore the relationship between visual, verbal, and written language. She takes inanimate objects from an instillation and joins them to the body, changing their function and psychological relation.

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