Danny Waples
Meditations in thought?My work portrays a level of conscious thought. Considered and composed to provide a datum, a point reference, where I am able to see the wood and the trees. Need and purpose for simplicity, an economy of orderly structure that is reflected through objects. Investigating balance and volumes positively and negatively, experimenting with transitions in plane, light and line. I am attempting to catch a moment, with movement, flow and energy; as the hand and the eye move around the object, to engage and focus, mentally and physically.
Working with white plaster, pure and clean, each piece feels like a hundred pencil sketches, but in every aspect better. The material represents questions of value, of how we perceive and judge. They have purpose and utility as illustrations of thought; in tokens, objects used as evidence, symbols defined with contents and meaning. Considering permanence, does the fragility of the plaster enhance a beauty in the transient nature of their and our existence, our thoughts and feelings?
Offering a direct connection, they are something you can hold on to and feel, as our perceptions can be deceiving. I want to hold on for a moment as through these I have found a peace and calm in a balance of complexities.
Eloquence in simplicity
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