Spatial Negotiations


I begin work by analyzing the way a piece could be viewed or interacted within the context of physical and visual movement.

In observing day to day routines, I have noticed a difference between the ways we as individuals chose to move when uninhibited versus our everyday interactions with constructed spaces. As a result I have come up with two categories for movement through which I approach portraying visual and physical space:

Directed Movement: (constructed) movement that is in response to the physically constructed visual cues in places that are usually related to architecture. These architectural choices usually have an emphasis on a particular function.

Free Movement: (intuitive) movement that is made in spaces in which there are few or no visual cues to imply or direct movement paths and types of motion. In this case movement is specific to how an individual chooses to negotiate the space and how they are most physically comfortable which is often individually distinctive.

By having an awareness and applying what I continued to observe in relation to both of these ideas about human movement, I hope to confront viewers in such a way that they will have to make conscious physical decisions in exploring and/or moving through the work. Through these decisions I would like to bring a further consciousness to the day to day choices involved in spatial negotiations and interactions, whether they are constructed or free, and how they inform our experience of a time, place, or a moment.


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well that week was quite a fiasco. Thanks Vino for the help on this and your support. Whew terms not over yet but I feel a huge weight off now that my senior art show and talk are over. Now to see what comes next....well here's a little of what's thought about next studio wise. We had to come up with a summation for our current position artistically for my studio class so here goes...

SP 2009 351 Taramaria Hood

With this term coming to a close I find myself in a feelingly odd place. Having to give my senior artist’s presentation forced certain big concepts to be better described. I don’t feel boxed in but I feel a desire to relook at how I am applying the larger issue of space and movement, as I described in my presentation, to my work for a while. Working with the nest-like form gave me a form to create variations from and to get to know and eventually use it to work out other issues. I am currently feeling a bit stuck with it though and feeling a bit of predictability in how it is being handled. I know I don’t completely understand it by any means but I think it is to the point where it can be called a part of the vocabulary of things that I can draw upon to talk about ideas.

I am finding a new way of dealing with printmaking in the form of etching and dry point to build on the abstract lines and forms that I was working with in my monos. These images are becoming more complex and layered and I am eager to explore these images and types of mark making more. They relate to my interest in sketching and gesture drawing but as a result the connections that I was starting to see or forge between my prints and sculptures seems to have been set aside for now because I no longer see their connection.

In sculptural form I am interested in working with solid geometric structure for a while. I think what I am looking for is a linear form that is more confrontational than the string geometric forms but I don’t know for sure. I am interested in trying to have a little more experimentation in construction just because I want that to not hold me back in the future even if I don’t end up using it much. Also for whatever reason I keep coming back to a box form in geometry and I am interested in finding out why or understanding it a little better. It appeared in my floor box in open studio, early in sculpture I in my hanging box, when I was creating paper frames on the floor in open studio upon which my sculptures would rest. I have noticed it, more specifically things closer to square rather than rectangle though rectangles are pretty prevalent too rather than other geometric shapes.

To move forward, I want to create more pieces that continue to play with their inhabitance of space, such as the stilts or hanging (most recent pieces). Two dimensionally I want to work more with dry point and etching and experiment with paint a little to explore color as well as just playing with a new medium. I feel kind of lost photographically so aside from using it for studies or sketches I don’t see a way currently of incorporating it.

Artists I was looking to at the beginning of term:

Eva Hess, Etsuko Ichikawa, Naum Gabo

Currently looking at in addition:

Giacometti (drawings), Tunga (Brazilian artist), Smithson, Wangechi Mutu (specifically, Suspended Playtime and her chairs on stilts)