This was a fun read and I heard it in my mind in Yoda's voice for sure! The subject of the essay is something I've thought about quite a lot. For me, less is more. I'd play a mind-game of imagining having an abundance of great junk to do my assemblage with. No limits. Sounds great but then I realize that I'd be so overwhelmed that I wouldn't know where to start with such a load of quality junk. I know that having limits to what I find/buy for my sculptures actually makes me stretch my creativity beyond those limits and will make better art pieces. To work with a limit amount of objects makes me "push the envelope" so to speak, and go beyond cliche', the expected, even the typical subject of what I've already explored and using what I have, if I spend enough time with it, will have me creating pieces beyond my own comfort zone as I push beyond the beyond. Less is more in this way.
This was a fun read and I heard it in my mind in Yoda's voice for sure! The subject of the essay is something I've thought about quite a lot. For me, less is more. I'd play a mind-game of imagining having an abundance of great junk to do my assemblage with. No limits. Sounds great but then I realize that I'd be so overwhelmed that I wouldn't know where to start with such a load of quality junk. I know that having limits to what I find/buy for my sculptures actually makes me stretch my creativity beyond those limits and will make better art pieces. To work with a limit amount of objects makes me "push the envelope" so to speak, and go beyond cliche', the expected, even the typical subject of what I've already explored and using what I have, if I spend enough time with it, will have me creating pieces beyond my own comfort zone as I push beyond the beyond. Less is more in this way.