Richard Serra's process and outcomes really intrigue me. When you go to the slide show there's little quotes from him. Most of the quotes have to do with how he wants people to walk through his pieces and have it be a physical and emotional experience. "You don't want the kind of 'wow' effect. Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it...When something's overly claustrophobic, or when something's overly threatening, when something allows you to walk into a passage and then feel a release—those things you learn only through the doing and only through the buildings of forms." When I read his quotes, I actually feel like he is working for his viewers. He wants us to walk through his pieces and feel something and to let something out and release emotions. In Fight Club, they fight to release emotion, Serra wants us to walk through his show and release emotion or whatever else we feel we need to release. Unlike what we've talked about how writers write for themselves, Serra seems to work and create these for other people. He may be getting release out of it but if he does he wants us to get the same amount if not more out of what he produces.
Now to the Labyrinth… The way he creates it sounds like the way we create our own labyrinth. He's not just making something, it's his actions that are making the artwork just like our actions help lead and make our labyrinths. He throws lead (I believe) onto walls to make it and he says it’s all about the process of creating it. We can’t just make our labyrinth and walk through it, we have to create it as we go based on the actions and choices we have made before. "Raw aggression and physicality, combined with a self-conscious awareness of material and a real engagement with the space in which it was worked.” It’s similar to the idea that we can't just wander around the labyrinth because then we wont get there. We have to engage with it and be aware that we are there in order to make any sort of progress. Without awareness, Serra wouldn't be able to create his art. Then there's just the idea that his artwork, you walk through it and it's similar to a visual labyrinth but that's kind of literal.
I googled his artwork to get some better views and I found this picture which I think is a nice birds-eye view. You get a better idea of the work.
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Richard Serra's process and outcomes really intrigue me. When you go to the slide show there's little quotes from him. Most of the quotes have to do with how he wants people to walk through his pieces and have it be a physical and emotional experience. "You don't want the kind of 'wow' effect. Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it...When something's overly claustrophobic, or when something's overly threatening, when something allows you to walk into a passage and then feel a release—those things you learn only through the doing and only through the buildings of forms." When I read his quotes, I actually feel like he is working for his viewers. He wants us to walk through his pieces and feel something and to let something out and release emotions. In Fight Club, they fight to release emotion, Serra wants us to walk through his show and release emotion or whatever else we feel we need to release. Unlike what we've talked about how writers write for themselves, Serra seems to work and create these for other people. He may be getting release out of it but if he does he wants us to get the same amount if not more out of what he produces.
Now to the Labyrinth… The way he creates it sounds like the way we create our own labyrinth. He's not just making something, it's his actions that are making the artwork just like our actions help lead and make our labyrinths. He throws lead (I believe) onto walls to make it and he says it’s all about the process of creating it. We can’t just make our labyrinth and walk through it, we have to create it as we go based on the actions and choices we have made before. "Raw aggression and physicality, combined with a self-conscious awareness of material and a real engagement with the space in which it was worked.” It’s similar to the idea that we can't just wander around the labyrinth because then we wont get there. We have to engage with it and be aware that we are there in order to make any sort of progress. Without awareness, Serra wouldn't be able to create his art. Then there's just the idea that his artwork, you walk through it and it's similar to a visual labyrinth but that's kind of literal.
I googled his artwork to get some better views and I found this picture which I think is a nice birds-eye view. You get a better idea of the work.
http://www.neublack.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/richard-serra-exhibit-01.jpg
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