Design Seminar 2

i recently bumped across an article about the sculptor Nemo Gould here on the Scavenging blog … Gould makes kinetic, robot-like sculpture from bits and pieces of objects he finds ‘out there’ within the daily stream of his real life … it kind of reminds me of where i left off in undergraduate school …

back when i had a studioSpace to create in, i would grab this or that roadSide debris and pop it in the back of my white stationWagon … road-flattened car parts, an old tire, furniture, streetsigns … anything on my ride into UMass Lowell from my parents’ house in Watertown was a silent and wiling victim for my commuter object collectivity

unlike Gould, i didn’t exactly know what i was going to make … i might stick an old shoe in a painting with polymer emulsion or the post of a stopSign would end up being a sculptural element within a full-room installation piece … i was scattered … it was exciting and ‘real’ work for me

i posted the following comment to the Scavenging blogPost as a way for me to perhaps archeologically understand some of my own found-object processes, looking through the lens of time, both backward and forward

brings a new spin to the phrase ‘collective consciousness’

interesting that the sculptor’s incorporation of found material brings a certain timelessness to his forward-looking vision

i particularly like the way Gould takes both the mechanical and natural, the metalbound and the more organic elements and melds them together … antlers, a violin, a saw handle … the collection of objects and their intersection in the form of these found kinetic sculptural compositions helps realize a semi-conscious dreamstate, an anthropromorphization through object-oriented prosthesisSystem … parts of us are what we find, i guess … we are the objects we encounter on our journey through life … or do the objects we encounter in life guide us on our path? alter our default internal and cosmic destiny as programmed at birth? did the apple alter our ‘course for adventure’ on this giant love boat of life through the decisions of Adam and Eve? or was it the PC?

Tags: art, find, found, found-object, life, Memory, Nemo Gould, object, Sculpture, United States, University of Massachusetts, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Visual Arts

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