Since the last exciting issue, I've decided to (as well as do some more stuff) look up and research some artists and see what inspiration I can glean from their works.
Firstly; Henry Moore and Antony Gormley; since taking out some books by them from the college library, they've had a considerable influence on my work and my approach to it.
These works by Henry Moore, "Two Grey Sleepers" and "Four Grey Sleepers" respectively had an immediate and profound effect on my project; they struck me for the way in which the sleepers seem to blend and meld into their environment and eachother. This appealed very much to my favourite idea of the sense of touch and all that stuff I was on about last issue.
I made a couple of things based off of this train of thought straight away;
The work of Antony Gormley is another area which I have found gives an interesting point of view for this project; his use of space in pieces such as "Fruit II", "Field for the British Isles", and "Fathers and Sons, Gods and Artists".
In these works Gormley really uses space in very interesting ways; the invasion of a space and the presence of something over-sized in a place it seem it does not belong in "Fruit II"; the filling of a space in "Field for the British Isles", and the placement of objects in a space in such a way that maximises the artist's desired effect.
These made me think more about the manipulation of space and how this affects the viewer; perfect for my other main idea of looking at space and manipulating it, covering up certain areas to change how it is sensed and seen, such as in these;
That's it for this issue, come back next time for more slendid tidbits in Issue #3!
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