Form Constriction

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Differences in similarity

Humans are adaptable, arguably very adaptable, that’s one of the reasons we have colonized the whole planet and now sit on top of the food chain. This adaptability is very evident in the artistic field, it is what most artists do in order to create and also to survive in a difficult field. In an exhibition the space is a restriction, the media used another, one’s work capability, the budget available, many factors are restrictors, the main one being one’s own imagination, this is the one which will decide how far one is capable of going. All these factors are also ever present and cannot be discarded, one needs to adapt, there is no creating with total freedom, or better said, there is in one’s mind if one discounts our capabilities as not being a restriction (the imagination again), but in order to arrive at a final object, artwork, etc, there will be more hurdles to pass, more concessions to make and the final product is never exactly what was intended. It is as with life a fine balance, a tight rope balancing act, between being over constrained by one’s circumstances and being able to deal with them and prosper within them.

Here we add another one, a more artificial constraint, not a theme, but a physical constraint. As constraints, barriers, hurdles however one would want to call them are also catalysts, they promote one’s capabilities of creation and imagination. Makes us work and better ourselves, at a medium level of application. The intention is not to make anyone’s artistic approach better or instill some level of self-help, the idea is to add an artificial constraint as mentioned, as an equalizer of form and observe how different people deal with this barrier, how the problem is solved in a way and how this impacts the composition of the whole exhibition, the dialogue between the works and the public and how differences in similarity are created.