From:
"John VanCamp" <jvcstnwrks@zzzzzzzzzzzzz>
Date:
Tue, 8 Jun 2004 17:39:52 -0500
Subject:
aesthetics
----- Original Message -----
Quoted text begins.Oh hell, I really didn't want to enter this fray, but you guys
have suckered me into it.
End of quote.
Well said, Bill. Although I have absolutly no background in
academic art, I can easily imagine your description of what goes
on there. I take two major sculpture magazines, and what is
commonly featured in one often leaves me scratching my head in
confusion. Where is the "art" in the piece, or more frequently,
page after page of pieces. They do nothing for me. However I am
not quick to criticize because my own sculpture is highly
personal, and as you stated, is meant for no one else's
satisfaction other than my own. If some one else likes it, sees
something in it, or (glory be) decides to adopt it and take it
home, so much the better. My very best pieces start with no
plan, and are the result of an unconscious process which to me
is a meditation. For me the sculptural process is 180 degrees
from that which is necessary in architectural carving. There
every detail must be laid out on the stone, and a definite plan
of attack developed prior to the first strike of hammer on
chisel. Working daily as an architectural carver is probably
why there are no straight lines or right angles in my sculpture.
Rather than taking the stone to the place detailed on the
drawings or model in front of me, I want the stone to take me on
a journey of it's choosing.
John VanCamp / JVC Stoneworks
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