"Nothing endures but change.” “Everything flows and nothing abides".

Heraclitus (Greek philosopher of Ephesus, c. 535–c. 475 BC).

Drawing with sculpture.

Top: Ryhope Road View Extension 3.4.2011.
Bottom; Moving way from the shed 20.4.2011.
Mixed media on lining paper.

                 

Movement Drawings/Sculptures,  on roles of lining paper, 

ink, wax, pencil, charcoal, compost, clay.

Movement in a static object?

"A movement is inherent in stillness. The stillness, as the contrasting conception of movement, refers to a state of relatively slow movement in a restricted space rather than a state of immobility".    


Sung Feel,Yun (b.1977, Korea).

STILLNESS IN MOVEMENT 01 / 307×153×0.5 cm / STEEL 2006.

To The Back and Front - considering exhibition views.

   

 

      
       Movement Sectioned I -VI.
Watercolour, wax resist, oil pastel on paper.(6x)76x56cm.

I'm in the process of making a series of double sided watercolours - planning to display hanging from the ceiling,so both back and front images can be viewed. Bringing a 3D element to 2D works.

Create an original? - the essence of motion?

3 Face Relief, mixed media on canvas 102x41cm.

This composition in relief is made using moulds of my face. This works on a human scale, colour mix only partly successful.

Fuzzy Suzzy, wax, silk paints and gutter, spray starch on canvas, 102x41cm.

Is it fair?

Headlines, Soft pastels on plywood, 122x81cm.

De-constructing the lines of movement created in previous works, I produced this drawing along with some smaller sketches. The colours and tones have also been separated out. 

3D into 2D, part of the process?

Head Motion, Wax, silk paint, acrylic paint on canvas, 122x97cm.

Reactions to my sculptures. However,colours/tones/impasto are successful in sections.The gestural marks are aiming to represent shapes, lines and spaces found my recent sculptures.

Tony Cragg - Royal Academy Modern British Sculpture Exhibition 2011.

Tony Cragg, Ever after (2006-2010) 

 I saw Tony Cragg's(b.1949 Liverpool.) Stack(1975) at the Royal Academy's Modern British Sculpture Exhibition in February this year.During research I came across some of his more recent work which has a strong sense of kinetic movement. The sculptures frequently begin with drawings whose anthropomorphic shapes are stretched and skewed when projected in three dimensions.I'm inspired by this contemporary practice of moving between different media. 

Tony Cragg, Untitled 2007, pencil on paper, 52.5x51cm.

Video - Heavy Spinning Sculpture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciMWcU_JqLY
A serialism piece of music composed and performed by James Williams.


Experimenting with video effects to further explore qualities of movement and change. 

Unfixed - Sonnet.

Many movements made,we fail to perceive,

A single gaze remains the same.

If progress is slow, you can’t see it leave,

An illusion of stillness lays its claim.

Gratuitous quake, tectonic tempest,

Many only sense the brutal shift and affect.

Big planet Earth spins around, takes no rest,

This ultimate force man doesn’t detect.

Perhaps we could build an apparatus,

That will extend our radar of motion.

Feel every push-pull, far too much for us,

Best leave it to the imagination.

Just know that everything flows, finds a way.

Nothings endures but change, won’t stay a day. 

                                                                            Suzanne Williams 2011.

Unfixed - Plywood and beyond.

Unfixed (2011), Plywood, wire, found objects. 215x183cm - can vary slightly with different set up.

 I needed to add several discs of wire to begin to support the structure. Then I started to add more lengths of plywood,  making reference  to shapes and linear designs from my previous works. I also experimented  by adding found materials, from home, thus imprinting on the piece personal memories and significance.The finished sculpture is more stable than my first attempts, but still exhibits a slightly unbalanced quality and has the ability to change. This does suggest movement in a "static" object. My skill to construct continues to develop.The introduction of alternative materials has added further layers and a depth not achieved solely from using wood. If I were to exhibit this piece I would need to partially build it on site.

Learning to work with plywood - a lesson in balance, form and construction.

                                                                                    

                                                                  

Different widths of 7' 6" lengths of 4mm plywood, fixed together only using slot joints, a little wire and staples.The resulting structure is limited by the range of flexibility of the plywood, it's dimensions and my skill in construction. A lesson in persistence and working in a large scale.

Did you See it Move? 

Plywood, wire, dimensions vary - approx 215cm high,

Artist research ongoing.

                                                                                                                                                                    

















Richard Deacon (b.1949,Bangor) His series of sculptures using steamed ash and stainless steel, beginning with Umhh (2000), have particularly inspired me to create structures in wood. Deacon has been preoccupied throughout his career with the relationships between body and space, interior and exterior, self and other "..it's to do with a point of transition between order and disorder, where different kinds of ordering emerge". 
 http://www.richarddeacon.net/
 Out of Order -Richard Deacon -Tate Trustees 2005.

Phyllida Barlow,(b.1944, Newcastle upon Tyne) Stack 2008.


http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2008/03/nairy_baghramian_and_phyllida_1.html

Suziemoves Rondo - Video piece.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anRPG2_FL6M

This video piece is composed from a series of digital photographic images taken of my head moving in a variety spaces around my home. The soundtrack is a piece in rondo form, composed by my elder son James Williams in 2005/6. I have tried to react to the changes in the music as each movement is introduced or reappears.The piece does have a "rough and ready" look, but this does suit the unresolved character of the original visual images.

Digitally enhanced photographs of steel,wire and found object sculpture.

Moving Head 1. Digital Image.

Moving Head II . Digital Image.

I digitally enhanced photographs taken of my steel, wire and found object head sculpture. I am in the process of producing a series of large digital prints.

These images successfully select the important areas of structure, and give me some composition ideas to pursue.