He works in many different ways bringing letters to life, including performance art, sculpture, graphic design and jewellery.
"In order to visually solve my questions I created countless drawings, mobiles, renderings, animations, and researched structures throughout design to find shapes and forms to provide the underlying skeleton for this new language of physical type"
The entirety of his research lead him
to four basic geometric forms or grids as he refers to them as, the cone, the circle, the line and the stripe, these shapes form the basis of all of his work, as previously mentioned; though his shapes are geometrically basic, his approach and mediums are versatile.
Heath aims to create a multi-sensory experience with his pieces, often including music amongst his work, even his website http://www.listeningwithmyeyes.com/ expresses his interest in creating a multi-sensory experience, I find this element of him very interesting as I am fascinated with the the condition synathecia, a condition where sufferers experience sensory overlaps within their brain which causes them (it varies between sufferer) see sounds or hear colours.
An interesting start to researching Heath- obviously this post needs to be developed further however I like that you have made connections to your own personal interest of 'synathecia' and are considering the idea of multisensory experience.
ReplyDeleteLater you will also be exploring different artists who use text in their work and I would like you to be able to fluently be able to comment on Heath to compare/contrast/draw links. This means that your contextual research should be expanded further. Consider: why he created these pieces and what was his inspiration, as well as describing techniques and processes.
Use the analysis sheet to enable you to fluently comment on his work now. -Include pictures and your responses after developing further.
Good start, link it to your theme and idea how it could possibly link. Present your own response that you've created in class and analyse in more depth ;)
ReplyDeleteGreat start! looking forward to reading your full analysis <3
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