As i previously mentioned, sometimes thinking too much is not a creative way to go about things.. I tend to have so many ideas on the go that sometimes i end up not doing them, sometimes it has even kept me awake… which lead me on to another idea for a series of work titled ‘Insomnius’ as that was how i was getting.. There is the notion that counting sheep in your minds eye will help you to fall asleep, i tried it and just ended up planning how i could portray that feeling of sleeplessness .. It was this that led me to cast a number of plaster sheep, using the same mould over and over, with the idea being to eventually create the same amount of sheep it took with counting to fall asleep, traditionally a hundred.. when i had created ten sheep in plaster i would make a box mould around the ten and use vinyl moulding material to create a duplicating mould so that i could cast ten plaster sheep at a time. well its still ongoing and i have learnt a lot from it………
The actual process itself due to the repetitive nature of re-sealing the mould and casting the next sheep of the ‘founding’ ten has become in itself a slow motion counting .. actual time is passing as each one is cast trimmed, sanded and added to the growing number needed to continue and finish the work.. I am literally and figuratively “counting sheep” with a goal in mind., whether to count, and reach the goal of sleep or the goal of realising an artwork, counting has become part of a repetitive process whatever the end goal. Theorizing about ‘time and the actual act of, ‘making’ is itself a temporal, and then historic activity, and in itself takes up time. Not finished yet……
