FILM 1:

Phyllidia Barlow: An Age of fallen monument

• love the focus on monuments collapsing, capturing the beauty of the sadness and destruction.

• She likes the idea of sculpture being not only about building but also being able to collapse.

• cardboard collumn - These took 5 days to make and is more like a performance piece/theatre piece, she's interested in the art of pretending and the theatrical nature of her work and the overall process.

• she very material based, like working with new materials. Painting the surface is her way of deciding when it is finished. She struggles finding an ending so uses the paint as a routine/her having the control instead of going over board and I really like the fact that she has a process that is personal and individual to her, it almost adds to her personal art style as it is a reoccurring pattern in  her work..

• sculpture being a 3D process makes the piece more than images, you can rediscover it in so many different ways depending on the way you walk through or view the piece.

• sculpture makes her work stand in time , she creates a phyiscal thing that stays and is more real/physical.

• her work is also about loss , her process is not about making a perfect sculpture its about her documenting and reclaiming moments.

• viewers of the piece are a vital part of the art as it adds the theatrical/performance value to the work, she describes it as " going on stage without a script"