Comments | ceasetoexist: robert smithson makes sculptures out of rock, i make sculptures out of construction paper.

ceasetoexist

robert smithson makes sculptures out of rock, i make sculptures out of construction paper.

Oct 12, 2004 12:36

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sidewalk_ashes October 12 2004, 09:45:34 UTC

<3 so much.

keepinmind October 12 2004, 09:58:35 UTC

amazing, your photographs are such an inspiration

overstrung October 12 2004, 10:09:32 UTC

these are great
i really like them..the colours are amazing

sixhours October 12 2004, 11:24:32 UTC

these are so unique... love it.
(and i hope the subject avoided too many paper cuts!)

robert smithson... tribalist October 12 2004, 13:11:52 UTC

can i ask how much of this project (and your work in general) is conceptual and how much is instinctual?

anyway, you're really good, i'm sure you know it of course, but i'm glad you're putting these up because they're pushing me to hurry up and get back to shooting.

Re: robert smithson... ceasetoexist October 12 2004, 18:56:35 UTC

thanks! actually my class didnt really have a positive response, they kept saying that the figure implies that there should be a distinct narrative or that the viewer should be able to have some sort of emotional connection to the figure. which is completely off. oh well.

anyways, i think all of my images are more instinctual or visionary, like i have all these crazy neurotic obsessions with easter eggs, polka dots, construction paper, etc, and i always have a catalog of environments that i want to create temporary installations in. i really can't understand it so i just embrace it and hope i can find some formal/elegant way to explain it later.

Re: robert smithson... tribalist October 13 2004, 14:00:28 UTC

yeah, it sounds like people are sort of projecting those ideas onto the pics. are you interested in doing full-blown installations? personally i see traces of fictional/fantastical situations in them, but they stop before getting to any kind of narrative or subjectivity. i think that's why i find them jarring and surreal, they're documents of situations that don't make sense no matter how you read them. good luck w/ it!