Auguste Rodin

Funny, but I do find some kind of comfort knowing that clay was used by artists like Rodin. In in my head, he was in the category of metal sculptures and metal casting and bronze… but not in clay.

I watched a documentary about Rodin life’s work and the narrator mentioned something exciting: “In mythology, humans are created from earth. Going back to nature, going back to the starting point on humans beings and moulding in clay Roding delved deeply into human emotions…” (Auguste Rodin: Modeler and Sculptor, Episode 1, 2018) 

I’m wondering if the consciousness sensation of creation that I have in my hands after working with clay and the similarities among clay and mountains, has something to do with this mythic idea of human origin: Perhaps … not,

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Clay Mountains

I went for a hike yesterday, the mountains at the distance resemblance the clay I’m working with. I think, both the hills and the clay, have the same materiality in form, shape and texture. At some point, I was sure that some forms of the mountains were made the same way I shaped my sculpture with clay. Colossal finger modelling the land in front of my eyes.

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Head #3
Date: 1973
Artist: Willem de Kooning

I did not research Willem de Kooning in depth until I had finished the sculpting laboratory. I did not regret this decision. Head # 3 of (see fig. 1.) is a new revelation. Now that I know how clay feels and I have a little knowledge of how clay behaves, I can appreciate this fantastic work in a much more powerful way.
I have seen this de Kooning work in my brief initial research. It impressed me since the beginning. However, it feels different now that I see it again. I can see how easy it is to reshape the physicality of clay, I really like it.

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Every one of us believes that
the centre of the universe is oneself
but there is a black hole there,
at the centre, in every one of us.

We live in loops

We’re capable of anything, no surprises here unless we believe everything spin around our own selves.

Spinning

We know this darkness, and we keep going towards it, in some kind of perpetual motion, like the universe itself.

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Harbinger Bird III
Date: 1960
Artist: Elisabeth Frink

Standing Figure (Knife Edge)
Date: 1961
Artist: Henry Moore.

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Bibliography

Victoria and Albert Museum (s.d.)  Auguste Rodin Working Methods  at: http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/a/rodin-working-methods/ (Accessed on 08.18.19)

Auguste Rodin: Modeler and Sculptor, Episode 1, 2018) [television programme online] (1918) 21 mins At:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA6OIYW_PRU (Accessed on 08.18.19)

List of Images

Figure 1. Head 3# Willem de Kooning,” (1974) [Sculpture] At: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/48509/head-3 (Accessed on 09.28.19)