Sculpture Reading

Thoughts on the reading

Sculptures are peculiar things. They serve no identifiable purpose and exist only to provoke a response from the viewer. That response is usually intended to leave an image on the viewer’s senses and open up their mind to thought. We, as viewers, are inevitably compelled to think about a sculpture, because as previously stated, a sculpture has no true purpose and so our mind’s long to give it purpose. I tend to find this entire process tedious, being a person who’s not really a fan of using their senses, and in all honesty I get physically tired quite easily when I’m being forced to use my senses to do something I’m already doing such as thinking profoundly about things. For me, external sources don’t tend to be very effective at inspiring my mind toward creative thought or entertaining my own creativity in my own creative process. This is because external things are always under the forced natural law that all physical things are forced to obey, such as gravity, physical form and a natural balance. And the way I perceive physical things, they are all the same to me. Even when objects are taken out of their “natural environment” in an attempt to provoke thought, it feels more forced than it does inspired. Only when an object or a sculpture starts to defy such natural laws do I start to find it intriguing.