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After creating my clocks piece, I began to see the lines on the faces of the clocks point to each other, forming patterns and shapes. Wanting to explore this, I took some tracing paper and followed the lines to a satisfactory shape that I was happy with aesthetically. Rather than just repeating the same…
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Session 3 began with a question on our behaviours: ‘When do I cry?’ For me the answer is not often, although I may want to or be in a situation that makes me sad and tear up, I can’t actually cry unless in very extraordinary circumstances. This is because it is a learned behaviour I…
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Robert Morris’s essay ‘Notes on Sculpture pt.2’ looks at the relationships between the viewers and the objects on display in minimalist art. With the monumental, we are impressed and overwhelmed, sucked into the scale of the sculpture. On a small scale, we form a much more intimate relationship with it, we are able to close…
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Another inkling of an idea that I’ve been carrying along is the idea of being dissociated from ones surroundings. That is to say: The feeling of disconnectedness. I find this is expressed in life when I am aware of the conscious effort that I may have to expend during social interaction. I often find that…
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The first room in the white cube plays out a basketball game from the point of view of a curious passing spectator; the pieces on the walls are created by the repeated bouncing of a basket ball onto the strips of paper. I stress the idea of the passing spectator due to the implied foreign…
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In this piece, on the hour, every hour for a year, the artist Tehching Hsieh punched in on a clock and took a photograph. The sentiment of this is to show the passing of time in a very literal sense, as I am doing similarly. Hsieh shaved his head before the start of the project…
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After a video where I made 100 cups of tea, resetting the kitchen before each one, done to illustrate my own resistance to change, addictions and dependancies on routine by performing the same action again and again, as I did in life, I noticed some interesting points that I had not intended in the video:…
Robin Leverton 