Project 3 Reflection 2

Working with the materials to create the image in my head and in my sketchbook was really difficult. In my sketchbook I didn't have to worry about the physics of my art. I just had to keep it on the page. But when dealing with 3 dimensions, I had to completely rethink my creation strategies, adapting to the limits of the physicality of the rocks. The form I had became more and more minimal as I went on, because I really wanted to focus on the weight of the image and the negative space. I really wanted a lot of weight to be put on the arm, and doing the sculpture in rock was perfect for this, but adding rocks to the other side would have added to much weight to the entire image. So I subtracted rocks from the other side, which allowed the imagination the viewer to take over from the cues I have given to see the rocks as a human figure. From that point the viewer can use her imagination to fill in the negative space with what she imagines the human figure would be doing in that space. This is a really cool effect, as it creates a sort of mist in the image's negative space, which is appropriate for the graveyard, smoke of smouldering ashes, or the metaphorical mist of creation, undefined over a long period of time.