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In the immortal words of George Perec, 'question your teaspoons...'
Why? Because art is a machine designed to make you think. To think about what you see and have seen. To think about what you hear and have heard. And yes, also about tastes and smells. Perhaps most of all art should make you think about what you feel. Once again this is meant in two senses; about what you touch but also about what touches you. Art is not a machine designed to give you answers...it should not provide or even favour a philosophy. Art should open your mind to help you form a philosophy of your own. Hopefully art will help you ask the right questions. But even the wrong questions are better than none...
Antony Clarkson is an international artist who has studios in both the UK & USA. His work crosses the boundaries and dimensions of art, often combining and interlacing genres: where does a painting end and a sculpture begin? Because of these vagaries of definition he prefers to define his work as; plane (drawing, painting, photography etc.), mass (sculpture) and volume (installation); although even these boundaries are flexible.
Why? Because art is a machine designed to make you think. To think about what you see and have seen. To think about what you hear and have heard. And yes, also about tastes and smells. Perhaps most of all art should make you think about what you feel. Once again this is meant in two senses; about what you touch but also about what touches you. Art is not a machine designed to give you answers...it should not provide or even favour a philosophy. Art should open your mind to help you form a philosophy of your own. Hopefully art will help you ask the right questions. But even the wrong questions are better than none...
Antony Clarkson is an international artist who has studios in both the UK & USA. His work crosses the boundaries and dimensions of art, often combining and interlacing genres: where does a painting end and a sculpture begin? Because of these vagaries of definition he prefers to define his work as; plane (drawing, painting, photography etc.), mass (sculpture) and volume (installation); although even these boundaries are flexible.
