I completed a sculpture in the summer of 2007, titled ‘Gravity and the arc of Being.’ Gravity in physics is known as a weak force, yet it is surely inexorable. Desire is perhaps much the same. I have arrived at the thought that it is the desire of pure consciousness to know itself that gives rise to the infinite forms of the universe. This is a theme I wish to explore further while a resident at the Blunk house.
Using the arc, (both physical and conceptual) as an umbrella, I will develop a body of sculptural work. Through a simple dialogue between antipodal themes such as curved and straight, form and space, age and permanence I hope to discover and articulate the mechanics of the tension necessary for ‘aesthetic arrest,’ or the cessation of the subject-object relationship. For it seems that in this state, the creative drives of the universe may be apprehended.
