SHRINE.
This is a video bounce from a power point presentation. Thus it may be unreadable in some places.
I think it illustrates one salient point however viz: how my 'art making' habits were unconsciously called upon when I was faced with a completely personal crisis (the death of my father).
A preoccupation with the wider natural universe and a tendency towards personal, autobiographical materials have been brought together with a simple pleasure in fabricating objects to produce something which is not a 'work of art', but merely the residue of my active response to a life situation.
As this process proceeded (over many years) I sensed its value as a vehicle for my making sense of the world.
Note: Perhaps all genuine creative processes are the result of a response to personal crisis, no matter how overt, or sublimated it might be.
I think it illustrates one salient point however viz: how my 'art making' habits were unconsciously called upon when I was faced with a completely personal crisis (the death of my father).
A preoccupation with the wider natural universe and a tendency towards personal, autobiographical materials have been brought together with a simple pleasure in fabricating objects to produce something which is not a 'work of art', but merely the residue of my active response to a life situation.
As this process proceeded (over many years) I sensed its value as a vehicle for my making sense of the world.
Note: Perhaps all genuine creative processes are the result of a response to personal crisis, no matter how overt, or sublimated it might be.
First half.
| shrine_1.mov |
Second half.
| shrine_2.mov |