Waking up this morning a recieved a text message from dear Polygon reminding me that we had our first guest lecture at 4pm.
Charles Avery is a familiar name and i have seen his work but he's someone i had never researched into. I was dubious upon the start of the lecture as this very middle class man spoke overtly articualately at us all, with a crazy levl of vocubulary being sprung on us so that half of what he was talking about i couldn't understand. Then i sort of let it all wahs over me and as i did began to understand more what his work is about.
Avery has for the last 5years continued one ongoing project known as 'The Island'.
Some may consider this as repetative and tedious however the way in which he approaches his work allows him to take on every single detail of this mind boggling fnatasy world which he has cultivated.
"The Island" Is based upon his own interest with philosophy and ethics and each and every part of this world is symbolic.
With the use of philosophy in my own work, and his questioning of the laws of reality, science and maths, representing a philosophic world through sculpture and drawing. I felt the Avery lecture to be very relevant.
Had i been viewing his work in a gallery, it is likely i would have passed it off as being 'science fiction' art, as many critics have. But listening to him justify his works many elements i found it so dedicated and talented to be able to continue one project for so long. As much as it is about the physical objects themselves, for Avery it seems more to be about the story and world he has made that is the art itself.
Upon leaving i felt i wanted to make use of my own project in the best way possible and push the boundaries of reality.
Definately had a little love for him when i left the Lecture Theatre. Yessum.
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