I have been studying the sculptures: Carl Plackman, Richard Wentworth, Doris Salcedo who at one time in my life would have passed me by totally. I am never happier now than when I am reading about or looking at their work, if I 'get' it all the better. It scared me a bit that Art can be an installation in a gallery space that is built and removed and can consist of 'found' objects that when arranged together form artwork.
It is the thoughts behind the work that I love to read about; what does it say, what does it depict? Sometimes, as with Carl Plackman there wasn't always a title to a piece of work, it was in his head...somewhere but it was enough to see it.
I really like his drawings which were his plans really although many of them are a piece of work in themselves. It is his use of perspective, colour, charcoal etc in his drawings that I really enjoyed copying during a module where we had to get into the artist chosen for us for 2 weeks.
Both the images above are 2 copies of his drawings that I did and it was a really worthwhile experience; a new way of drawing completely for me. Carl Plackman died several years ago but his wife has a web site, I contacted her re information on the media he used and she was kind enough to email me straight back... I was thrilled to bits! She was pleased to hear that we were studying Carl on the FAFD course
The work I did is some of my best yet and it is ongoing. I have really felt an affinity with him.
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