Optica12

I finally got out last night and shot the work up at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts. Its great to see ones work up in a public space, and one cant get more public than Brunswick Street in Fortitude Valley.My being accepted into Optica12 is an opportunity to expose what I see as the beauty in the action of digital sculpting as well as re-looking at the aesthetics of the skull. It legitimises my medium and practice as a three dimensional digital sculptor. About the installation: SphereForms_01 (2010)2Min's: Seeing how a piece evolves from its primitive form is one of the most fascinating experiences of any practicing artist. This piece is part of a series of digital sculpts in action, based on the conceptual simplifications that have directed the ways of seeing for all visual artists. The practice of using a primitive shape as a guide to modelling or drawing more complex forms is well documented. In Bridgman’s Life Drawing, he instructs on simplifying forms to aide memory. He defines the processes of seeing the masses of the human body by breaking them down into square and round shapes. In this series of studies, my focus is not on the resulting sculpture, but on the relationship of the sculpt with its initial primitive starting form - the sphere. No two spheres are sculpted in the same way. Each piece cycles from the sphere to the complex form of a human skull, then devolves back to its basic form. The skulls are revealed though several view points; inferior, anterior, lateral and posterior, while still concealed by surface pixilation and the rapid movement of the projection.