Mark's object is ready to be sent. It feels strange to be wrapping it up and packaging it for him. I don't have any feelings about not having the object for myself as I am used to relinishing my ownership to the material things I make or have made in the past. However the fact that it is going to his home and enters into the domain of his life, his family and his things is very different from an object existing within the gallery. I feel that the object is an interruption or may cause one in his routine at home. I am interested in how much I will be there (in his head) when he opens the package and I imagine that they will all feel a pressure to understand or like the object as they know my investment. They don't need to like it but they do need the encounter with the object whatever the encounter may bring in terms of response and thoughts. What am I providing, a provocation, a question, an action. This object/s feel very comfortable in ones hands, its weight for me is reassuring but there is a situation presented by the two elements of the object. When I first made the component parts they were intended to be held on either side of the double spoon, but through the making the spoon was made redundant when filled on both sides. I believe there is a potential and active element by the salt lick part being seprate, but I will see what Mark thinks.
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Kimberley FosterKimberley's practice as an artist is pedagogical, it doesn’t just reference learning, it plays with, embodies and encourages learning at its core. The objects consider ideas of collaboration and authorship, discussions about touch and encounter, and bring into active consideration issues of learning within social and participatory practices. Archives
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