Collating my sketches over the past few pages of my sketchbook as an act of documentation and reflection. I often forget entire ideas and often specific details.
All this is my processing. Especially around why I am focusing on the paddle so much. I don’t think I’ve actually addressed this out loud in my blog. So here goes.
The paddle is a strange level. Does it moves the water, the boat, itself? I think it moves all three. It uses the dual state of the water, which provides the resistance and yielding at the same time, levering itself and the boat. A tool of the liminal. Offset. Offset meaningthrough small apertures, Interstices.
Also I see the paddle as an agent of change/ movement - Passage through the liminal. Navigating change.
The Liminal can never be resolved, located in time, or space or concept. The passage facilitates change, movement. Accepting continuous change. Progressive generation.
The paddle as self governance.
In movement and change is uncertainty. My work engages with the sense of unknowing. Transformation is the aspiration, yet not necessarily the out come. Making a piece of art work is also to engage in uncertainty.
What do I want my audience to take from my work? A sense of wonder - to be inspired by a strange unfamiliar beauty and to see something perceive something formerly unknown.