Since our discussion on Wednesday about gas welding I felt much less daunted and much more excited about my next piece. I began looking at the artists Greg had recommended and was really struck by the work of John Chamberlain. This piece, Dolores James resonated with me, first of all because of the color and also because of the way the individual pieces interact with each other.
(Dolores James, John Chamberlain, 1962)
I had been thinking of my piece as a tangled mess of “wire” but realistically I don’t want it to be a mess. In Chamberlain’s work while often made of multiple components doesn’t simply appear as a jumbled pile of car scraps. The pieces bend and mold around each other with some appearance of intention even though the work remains gestural and intuitive.
I hadn’t really thought about color in my piece and even in thinking about our trip to the scrap yard I hadn’t considered the prospect that there would be colored materials to choose from and work with. This seems odd to me now since last term I thought a lot about finding ways to incorporate color into my piece. As it stands now I’m in a holding pattern until our trip next week to the junk yard. I think whatever I find there will definitely be informing the actual shape of my piece and how they’re transformed.
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