Ideas come in all sorts of ways. Sometimes I dream something, or wake up with a vision I’ve never had before. Other times something I see will spark a chain of thought.
This is one example:
In a paddock somewhere outside of Currency Creek is a forlorn structure that may have once been a sign, with a fence so cows don’t push it over, maybe.
This little fenced-in area stirred a memory of a time in my childhood. And so I began to draw little figures surrounded by a cage but that was just too obvious, and then I looked at the feeling I had of wanting to escape.
So there was a tenuous connection between a structure in a paddock / an idea of being confined / finding a way to escape / and also wondering if this is the last in the series of work that I have been working on.
From the paddock to the sculpture is quite a leap. Seeing something (often quite banal) can trigger a memory or feeling or idea seemingly unrelated. I think being open to possibilities and not forcing ideas is important. Allow the world and our ‘inner world’ to speak. If we listen there’s always something. Be curious and look for the truth in an object and the materials.
