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Observing is an imagining of what one is confidently
expecting to see
Paul Valery
But in a relationship what is one expecting, and how to represent
it.
This arose from the realisation that there
was a 'relationship-channel' in conventional portraiture which
is essential for effective work.
I was unable to directly model that as the visual stimuli were
too strong but by transfering it to a more abstract level and
observing that "relationship channel' between two other
people I could attempt to represent it.
So from my understanding of a relationship (a sense perception)
,I create a 3-D manifestation. This is not necessarily matching
a mental image, I'm not sure I can identify what that is ...
I'm not aware of 'seeing' anything. I work from sensations.
Conventional portraiture is easier, it's all there in front
of you;
"In the last resort he (the painter/artist) paints
only what pleases him. And what pleases him? What he can paint.
The painter imagines that what is there for the seeing is "beautiful"
but he only sees what tallies with his sense of Beauty"
Neitsche
So how to break this tautology. How to get to the heart
of the matter. How not to be seduced by the Beautiful. How
to be true, find it, represent it, and have it recognised
for what it is.
 We
operate as a reactor. The WIGO (what-is-going-on) around us
affects us all differently but we all contrive to understand
it in similar ways. And our writing, art, and music show a fairly
cohesive view of ourselves and our place in space-time. We can
see how myth and religion operated on our core 'circuits' to
produce the Medieval world view, or the Aboriginal Earthmother,
Chinese Turtles, Greek gods or whatever, but what is the reactor
in these emancipated free-thinking times? What does it do to
WIGO, how is it programmed, how does yours differ from mine,
or do I only think it does.
We have an ability, in the word portrait, to describe
how people interact with each other,or ourselves, and use that
as an identifier of type. Can this be translated into clay.
Does this qualify as portraiture. Or is there a proccess being
performed at the receiving end which derives information from
the style of verbal, physical, emotional, human contact.
I should be able to create a physical manifestation from
my mental/emotional understanding of the relationship that you,
also knowing the relationship, will be able to distinguish from
other sculptures of other relationships. If we are agreed that
a couple are well suited, happy, in harmony, and there are many
ways to express that, and many indicators at many levels, emotional,
spiritual and physical, then I should be able to show that. I
am confident I can show that. But not what I should be expecting
to see, nor that it should be beautiful.
     
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