John Meade: Round World
鈥淩ecently I set myself an exploratory challenge in the studio to make a series of sculptures using only circles and ellipses as a starting point. I began by tig-welding multiples of these two shapes in similar proportions with 3.2mm mild steel wire. I鈥檇 then construct a wireframe using one or the other of these elementary forms without having a pre-existing image in mind and continue working it until I arrived at something . . . and then onto the next one. Through the process of making, I reflected on the geometry of the shapes, and how they align with the real-world phenomenon of circular or elliptical motion in nature.
The intention of the task was to rely on my hands like a water diviner with a dowsing rod. I would never know what the outcome would be, and the process was charged with uncertainty. As it is the thinking hand that acts, the strategy suggests a different type of intelligence that draws, only in part, on memory and inclinations of previous styles.鈥�
鈥淩ecently I set myself an exploratory challenge in the studio to make a series of sculptures using only circles and ellipses as a starting point. I began by tig-welding multiples of these two shapes in similar proportions with 3.2mm mild steel wire. I鈥檇 then construct a wireframe using one or the other of these elementary forms without having a pre-existing image in mind and continue working it until I arrived at something . . . and then onto the next one. Through the process of making, I reflected on the geometry of the shapes, and how they align with the real-world phenomenon of circular or elliptical motion in nature.
The intention of the task was to rely on my hands like a water diviner with a dowsing rod. I would never know what the outcome would be, and the process was charged with uncertainty. As it is the thinking hand that acts, the strategy suggests a different type of intelligence that draws, only in part, on memory and inclinations of previous styles.鈥�
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