bfa4ange

[bfa4ange]

Tohorā (whale) and Kauri swap textures narrative, photograph by Nathan Williams

And below, an image of artist Cameron Jamie with a similar aesthetic to my sculptures and is a possible way I could mount sculptures in the future though I like the humbleness of my object's weighty look directly on the floor.

[bfa4ange]

translations of titles from my exposure page artworks

also manawa means breath or heart

[bfa4ange]

[bfa4ange]

[bfa4ange]

[bfa4ange]

[bfa4ange]

Final reflections

I really love that I have this weird and wonderful biomorphic body of work from this semesters material and whakapapa research. It has been the most productive art making semester of my whole degree. I'm inspired to continue on with my making techniques and I have lots of ideas.

I called my project “Gather” because I have been gathering whakapapa knowledge.   

My final install took quite a while to come together because of the nature of the engine room (getting sun stroke twice) and being a group area rather than silo-ing our work with T-walls like in Block 2. It has been a huge learning trying to balance the needs of our final handin with wanting the room to be cohesive.

I made three more sculptures last Thurs/Friday thinking that I could then have plenty of choice for what might go into the Engine Room and or Clearview as well. But Clearview was needed by another student so I had lots of work in the end but edited back to things that related to my pou forms.  As my work needed the floor and not the walls, it became challenging to wait till so close to handin time to install as my process needs time to sit with ideas in situ and then change over the course of a day or two.

The Engine Room has been a hard space to spend time in when it is so hot and bright. My decision making skills have suffered somewhat as a result of being under such bright sunlight and heat.  But I think I have edited out most of the smaller sculptures that would not have worked with my pou sculpture.

Last minute changes by Shannon mean I’m quickly coming to terms with another arrangement of my work, but I trust that he knows more than I and that I have some blindness to my work that only time will clear. 

The slumpy/erect/textural/baulbus/"hokey pokey" pou in the handin is made up of 5 sculptures threaded over a pole. It is quite an intense object with unusual texture “tests”. This sculpture works really well in relation to Nathans painting because of the weightyness of the colours and pod shape that echo in each works.

I’m glad to have installed the blue/brown tohorā/kauri inspired floor sculptures, they add another narrative to the group of objects.

I like the idea that the sculptures are located directly above or very close to the mechanics pit that is covered over with flooring in the Engine Room. I've made a connection with the mechanics pit to the kauri gum trenches that were dug to extract kauri gum like those I visited in September in the Gum Park up in Northland. I had considered painting the surface area of the pit but with everything we were already dealing with and waiting for Shannon to help out it wasn't a reasonable thing to do for this exhibition, but maybe in the future? The pit has intriguing possibilities.

The smallest sculptures - the pearly white and the little brown bodily form sitting closer to the back wall are glued together at the top (to support each other) and look like little interlopers as their surface treatment and colour is slightly different but relate to the baulbus-ness of the pou sculpture. Someone has read these two wee sculptures in relation to my two children, thats a beautiful connection. The oval shapes tie in alittle with Pips fantastic drawing/ink studies on the wall that are also pod/embryonic like.

[bfa4ange]

Nathans painting also relates to my sculpture.

[bfa4ange]

[bfa4ange]

[bfa4ange]

[bfa4ange]

[bfa4ange]

[bfa4ange]

[bfa4ange]

[bfa4ange]