Monday, 31 January 2012

Today’s lesson was about materials experimentations and working and drawing restrictions. This made me think about some important questions you’d better ask yourself while you are working with a new material or making a new piece:

1.    Are you working with or against the material?

2.    If you never break rules, will you ever discover something new?

3.    Is it possible to work with no rules at all?

4.    Are you making a fast, simple and repeatable piece or a more complicated, unique one?

5.    Are you using a certain material for conceptual or esthetical reasons?

6.    Do you want to hide or to show the material?

7.    What happens if you try to overcome your physical limits while you are working?

8.    Which are the criteria to judge a piece?

Sometimes questions are more useful than answers.