Friday, 16 May 2014

Alberto Giacometti

Some of the outcomes of my previous painting experiments have been almost sculptural and so I want to take my work into three dimensional models. I immediately thought of the textures used in Giacometti's sculptures and how I could find a way of working this into my own work. The proportions have been exaggerated and pushed to their limits in some cases, but because of the way we project our image onto everything looking for the face or form in a shape they are still recognisable.

I plan on making a few clay heads using my own paintings as a starting point or reference but really trying to work with the material and letting the way it cracks and behaves to influence the outcome. This is in part because I think it is a natural progression for my work but also referencing the severed heads on sticks Marlow sees at Kurtz's camp. 




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