From:
"Clive Murray-White" <clivemw@zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz>
Date:
Sat, 2 Oct 2004 10:34:35 +1000
Subject:
Cool fresh start (personal intro)
Hi Bill,
I was captivated by your last efforts, sorry about the lawyer advice if it
contributed to the demise of your project.
You wrote:
Quoted text begins."I also now know allot more about Marcel Duchamp
and his ready-mades. Fascinating. ..... What a clever person to make a
collapsed experience of what we see when we move and look.
And to create an entity that possesses it's past and
future as well the movements required to see the different
views".
End of quote.
Mr Duchamp has always had a huge impact on me, more obviously in my early
work, ie visually apparent but more deeply since, if you like the
breakthrough came when I allowed myself the call each piece of stone a
ready-made, a perfect slice of time etc. So in essence, regardless of what
anybody else sees in what I do, I think of myself making assisted
ready-mades. The time traveller component is not only supplied by the use of
an archaic medium (stone) but by the adoption of a single very simple
subject, a human head, no neck, no body and rarely intact..........what
happens when these are viewed is that the viewer not only imagines much that
is missing but tracks through the history of the world to place these things
in some kind of context.
So, in a sense all I really provide is the tips of icebergs.
It would be my hunch that by seeing your own lumps of stone in more
Duchampian light you may also get the breakthrough that I feel you are
hoping to stumble on. If I dare to be so bold I would suggest that you allow
the stone to tell you where to go, allow it to provide the clues to all that
you need to say, never plan a thing in advance, just go where it takes you,
no maquettes, no scaling up, right size first time because I would reckon
that from the second you've made a start you'll have such a relationship
with it that everything that is important to you will find its way into what
eventually comes out.
I do admit that there is a chance that you could always wind up with a
pebble if you argue to much so you do have to be a little careful....best
rule you can always make something good out of anything and as soon as you
see the potential for something good go for it.
Best regards Clive
Sculptor Clive Murray-White
Web: www.cowwarr.com
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