15/03/2019

Sculpture has certain intrinsic values, right? weight, heft, mass, volume, siting, texture, substance blah blah blah. Painting has problems: composition, mainly, for me. So I'm cuting out the problems of painting, literally by cutting out. No more need to worry about what to put in the corners, or how to introduce space and distance. I am making sort of paintings but without the frames, sculpture but without the difficulty of making something in the round.
This has led me to question the nature of sculpture, its need to take part in the real world by being solidly in it. My new flatties are fun, thin, white on the back so they disappear, skimpily made, ridiculously colourful. I would say girlish, except that I'm not a girl. Maybe that can just be another part of their conundrum. A girlish quality, which is to say toi have qualities associated with girlishness.
Maybe childish would be more apt.