From:
Bill Smith <besmith@zzzzzzzzzzzzzz>
Date:
Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:24:00 -0500
Subject:
why carve? and distinctivnes and things
Regarding this idea, I would suggest design and invention scheme that can
work pretty well in non-art fields. List the attributes you can think of for
an item and then change one or more of those attributes for something new. I
will sketch how it works for you with an example. Imagine a common pencil.
Some attributes: straight, yellow, hexagonal cross-section, black lead,
eraser tip, 10" long, hard, manually sharpened, pointy. Now, take any or a
combination of those attributes and change them and you can have something
entirely different. Curved, oval cross-section and colored.
Does every change work or make sense? No. But the changes can give you
ideas.
This method might work for sculpture too. I don't see why it wouldn't. Look
at a Noguchi for example. Perhaps you see smooth, planar, assembled, and
monochromatic as attributes of a particular work. Then changes might be to
make tool marks prominent, or to use a palette of color, or to make it look
organic and grown.
Just an idea.
Yours,
Bill
Clive Murray-White wrote:
Quoted text begins.... only change one thing at a time is a much better way of doing it
You can turn any idea into an original one especially if you concentrate,
not on the idea because they are rarely all that new but on what you think
the other artist got it wrong
End of quote.
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