| Popis: |
An individual's modern daily program of activities is likely to be entirely depended on electronic tools and media as our personal interaction with others become increasingly mediated by technology. Observation of the people surrounding us has decreased so much, and I dare say that we are so absorbed by our touch screens that these are becoming extensions of our hands. I examine and demonstrate work in which handmade, minumental, representational, full body portraits of individuals are created (Figures. 1,2). The familiarity of the human figure bridges the cognitive chasm between the viewer and the object, and consequently understanding improves. The viewer connects easily with the object and the object ceases to be an object. It becomes the mould of our perception, facilitates understanding of an issue, bridge voids, balances chaos, stands for itself and leads the viewer's imagination to make subjective scenarios, reflections. My investigation is about a complex web of interactions which take place in the process, between agencies which might traditionally understood as artist, subject, viewer, participant, recipient, audience and object. In times when social media offers the power to every individual to promote and publicise his or her lifestyle, personality, thoughts and so much more, at an instance, 3D scanning and printing introduce an extra dimension to representational depiction: What does sculpture have to offer? Its stillness remind us to stop for a minute and think, dream, fly to another dimension, see things from another perspective. |
