Sunday, June 12, 2011
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This stage of the sculpture's after life was particularly important to me and I was relieved I hadn't chosen to keep it whole after all. Like my object II, I wanted to be able to see its construction, its layers of aggregate and the various thicknesses of concrete. It's hard to describe, but when it was finally in pieces on the floor it felt right, in stomach and at the back of my head. The once fragile object that I had been so concerned would break, now in solid broken pieces .
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This last stage of breaking the concrete was far more difficult thank I had initailly thought. I have to watch my wrist so Tim did the rest. The irony was that we took so much care shifting the sculpture thinking it to be this fragile object but when it came to trying to break it , it was incredibly solid
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