... constantly working out the details...

... constantly working out the details...

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Sigmund Freud is a hack.

So what is so sexual about this work? Though it is difficult to directly put your finger on, (no pun intended) there are elements that are mysteriously erotic about these works. Many of the elements vaguely imply a nebular round shape. Flopping and sagging over time, the shapes come to a point defined by a co centric smaller circle of similar, yet rougher often darker materials. Some forms are long ovular shapes, which stand on end when activated. at other times the work seems to fold in on itself, creating fissures, and enveloping voids, becoming more and more entangled in itself. These elements combine, interact with each other, through inflation and deflation, undulating, bouncing and shaking, in a slow almost rhythmic cycle. The cycle, remarkably runs in three phases. Upon initial interaction the work stirs, slowly coming to life rising and swelling, until at last things come to a head, the work is at its maximum turgidity, and is in full bloom. this climax lasts until the stimulus ceases, and a third phase of slow, steady decent in action begins. at last, the piece returns to its original state calm and peaceful.

Although this is not what any of the work claims to be about, it is an interesting coincidence. nothing concrete, plenty of suggestion. Like the idea of personal space, it invokes the question of the viewers relationship are we reading into the sculpture, or is the sculpture intended to read this way.

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