“Man is most nearest himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.” - Heraclitus
This series was developed while working with artist David Horton, winner of Sculpture by the Sea 2007 and current teacher at the National Art School.
Horton works using scuptural principles taught to him by his teacher Rob Robertson-Swann, in turn handed down to him by Anthoy Caro.
These ideas included establishing a unified formal language in a work, creating assymetric balance, capturing and retaining the eye, realising the gestalt of a work, and striving for a process of play that lies in the hands of the creator.
This understanding of the hands as thinking tools would re-emerge in my education in Glenn Murcutt’s studio, as Murcutt sang the praises of Juhani Palasmaa’s seminal work, The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture.
