Sigh a mere 25 minutes after stupidly allowing add-ons update in firefox i can now start typing. I have few mins left before i'm out of power... gakkk.... no just kidding. the laptop might go though. Hm i dunno firefox used to take 3 seconds to do that kind of thing, now its endless waiting & semi-crashing until u fnally start IE instead & then u can swear at how interminably slow that runs & by the time u got gmail up u can try firefox again & maybe..
Buggering bloody computers anyway. I got a weird foot at the moment thats causing me a bit of grumpy. Its kind of numb on top & a bit pins & needles & if i push on it it feels like its being ripped apart. Nothing visible at all. Not the usual sore foot eh. I took some magnesium this evening in case its related to cramps but otherwise who nose. I had to sit own this arvo tho when i got it caught under a thing, & twisted it. Gosh did that hurt. I don't think it would have hurt usually, so its just a bit delicate or summink. Hope it starts to improve soon or i'm gonna need to be careful with it & thats a PITA... Got a meet early next week to approve a maquette for the next life sized dude & from that moment it'll be full steam ahead & no time for any frailties thank Q.
Been contemplating what is the role of a sculptor. Skip to the end now if that bore u to tears...
Know some sculptors who just do pretty ordinary work, and sell loads of it. The point is, should a person strive to create amazing things that are an exploration of incredible universes & formalist practice & perhaps create their own sculptural language, or is the fact you sell em means its not broke & why fix? You ask yrself why wd u devote yr life to an art form & never want to push it to hell & back? Well the answer may be many things but it just being a job could be one of them. Its not the kind of job anyone wd choose to make a living tho, so u suspect a person start it all starry eyed & idealistic.. but then when the work starts & keeps selling, do they reckon they made it now & thats enough pushing it. I dunno. Maybe they worry if its a bt different it might stop selling.. dunno.. i mean u could always make both kinds of work couldn't ya?
But like ppl buy the stuff... so is it broke? Maybe its not. But if several actual sculptors think its shite, then it is shite, this is true. Guess ppl buy it cos there is nothing as shiny next to it that actually is a good sculpture. And shiny matters. Surfaces & colour matter, & Bling. Sadly, they have to put the bastard in the house somewhere & live with it & they care about them things.
And is the sculptor's role to make what other people want into a 3d object, like make manifest their vision or their hopes & expectations? For example if u make an urn for the ashes of a stillborn baby for a friend, or get commissioned to make a portrait of some historical dude. Or is it to be the maker of objects & then afterwards people come to you & buy one cos they like your vision? Like Henry Moore. Henry Moore is a odd one cos he just made Henry Moores & people got him to make a Henry Moore as a commission. In the annals of commissioned sculpture history did anybody ever get asked to just go make somethin, whatever took his fancy, the way he was? [Please imagine this rhetorical question from the POV of a person (myself) who hasn't got much a grasp of actual art history but yet I think i'm correct here - cos hell they were all Henry Moores, eh. Nobody said, i'd like a blobuform mother & child here pls, Henners, and i'd like em to float a bit & have no relation to figurative sculpture as its been done in the past 4000 yrs.]
Anyway... been busy makin another maquette today. Its not going so great cos every pose besides the original one looks unco. But i'm fighting hard against that & getting the anatomy up on it... adds to the flavour.... if u got the gesture & the anatomy u should have a contender or at least something not embarrassin. Me, i still like the first one though. What can u do.
Ah, better do my tax before i get the nod on the big feller, cos there won't be no time from that moment til Xmas for any muckin about.
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