What interested me about these documentaries is the scope of vision some of these creators have and had. It then started me thinking that my Naighbour’s could think I fall in to this crazed artist category having seen me working at the front of my house carving these current objects.
As for working in mortar, I’m actually really enjoying the process a lot of the carving seems so intuitive, muscle memory and tool recognition kicking in from a past life carving plaster shapes for ceramic projects.
Added to this the mortar is ever so forgiving and I’m able to realise shapes and forms in it rather quickly.
Finally the size of the pieces are interesting they are small intimate objects that can sit in the hand and be carved in intense bursts. They look like something from a different age as if they have been prised from their sleep in the earth, areas slightly worn away but still retaining some hint of detail.
Maybe this is what I have been striving for for some time.
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The Art and musings of Jeffrey Knopf 