Friday, July 24, 2009

Globular masses




At the moment I'm reading a book called Sculpture since 1945 by Andrew Causey. Excellent so far if you ever get the chance to read it. Inspired by Otto Piene's Fire Flower Power and my school's Lunar and Solar theme, I was trying to capture this afternoon some aspects of his flower power machine and the light that it created on the walls. I think I am quite, what's the word, intrigued/absorbed/enamoured by these globular masses that we call the sun and moon. The roundness of them, the weightiness of them. I need to start my summer project soon and it would be good in some way if I could find an object near my house that I could somehow base a spherical sculpture on. Not that that's the right way to go about it perhaps. Hoping to see the Spain Goya to Picasso exhibition at the National Gallery tomorrow. I've found it interesting that Picasso was a bit of a sculptor. I hadn't realised that before, only really being aware of his cubist paintings.