Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
The thing with sculpture is, 90% of the time, when I pass a piece of sculpture, it's in public or somewhere, and it's just, how inconvenient that that's there. It takes up so much room, and it's so oppressive.
I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture.
I believe people can have a profound experience by being surrounded by something beautiful - that's what I aim for. My sculpture is about the way you feel when you're standing under it and inside it. It's experiential art.
I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place.
But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.
It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.