Okay... I get the fact that we have to try everything out.... and I get the fact that we have to choose only one option ... but... what I don't get is how this process is meant to work when you love doing all of the electives...
I have just finished my sculpture elective and im even more confused than ever, I love the freedom of expression that this dicipline offers and that a group of people working together in a brainstorming session can have such varied takes on the same word.
To look around the studio today and not to see any two pieces that were even remotely connected was astonishing. The fact that sculpture is fundamentally conceptual is more than I could have imagined, how could an artist not be happy in this area?
In the past two weeks I have managed to produce an array of pieces that I can only describe as eccletic. Who knew that a ball of string and an old battered palette could go on such a journey. I am truly overwhelmed by the endless posibilities that this dicipline offers, however... how do I know if it is really the one for me?
During the painting elective I worked hard to learn the techniques to enable me to produce a successful piece and I felt a huge sense of achievement when these techniques proved successful. Yet in sculpture the pieces seemed to take on a life of their own and almost dictate their own direction, so would it be true to say that the achievement I felt on their completion was belittled by the fact that I had no real techniques to qualify them as successful?
For the moment I suppose I will just have to leave the final decision in the laps of the gods, who knows where my mind will lead me after the next elective, so onwards and upwards and roll on ceramics.....
I have just finished my sculpture elective and im even more confused than ever, I love the freedom of expression that this dicipline offers and that a group of people working together in a brainstorming session can have such varied takes on the same word.
To look around the studio today and not to see any two pieces that were even remotely connected was astonishing. The fact that sculpture is fundamentally conceptual is more than I could have imagined, how could an artist not be happy in this area?
In the past two weeks I have managed to produce an array of pieces that I can only describe as eccletic. Who knew that a ball of string and an old battered palette could go on such a journey. I am truly overwhelmed by the endless posibilities that this dicipline offers, however... how do I know if it is really the one for me?
During the painting elective I worked hard to learn the techniques to enable me to produce a successful piece and I felt a huge sense of achievement when these techniques proved successful. Yet in sculpture the pieces seemed to take on a life of their own and almost dictate their own direction, so would it be true to say that the achievement I felt on their completion was belittled by the fact that I had no real techniques to qualify them as successful?
For the moment I suppose I will just have to leave the final decision in the laps of the gods, who knows where my mind will lead me after the next elective, so onwards and upwards and roll on ceramics.....
