Tag: Sculpture

Figures Fillière 1

This is page 29 from my recently published Figures Fillière 1.

It explains the processes, thought and sculptural, whereby this sculpture in wire, plaster, and plasticine of E. B. Fillier now exists. The black and white photo, since it lacks colour cues, is especially intriguing as its presentation of reality challenges the perceptions of many viewers, who knew and were pupils of this teacher, to ask whether this isn’t a photo of the subject rather than of the sculpture itself.

Book is available at amazon.com /books / Scott Fillier.

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Shoreline Form

This is a sculpture made using basketry reeds as armature to sketch out its form. It was made without pre-planning as I wanted a form that would freely evolve, and one which would work visually from all positions around it. The armature was covered with many layers of plaster, paint, and paper towels all bound together by the wetness of the paint, until it became this curious fish / skull-form with a dangling, floating, paradox of an eye that can be both pendulum and rotational.

The surface of the materials dried out to a firm bone-like density that can be worked in many ways. So I considered it all-in-all a satisfactory artistic experiment.

The drawing followed after the sculpture—a record of the project as an illusion of a 3-D form on a flat paper surface; which is in fact what the photo also does to the skull: both presenting and denying at the same instant, its existence as a form in real space but eliminating the dimension of time. It’s for the eyes only: only in your imagination can you now move around the object or set its eye in motion.

Fillière © March 22 2019

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Palette Figure

When I made this sculpture in 1987 I couldn’t help myself from inscribing a little poem into its plainer side. I had chosen to give its two sides as thorough a contrast in treatments as possible; hence, one side got a brilliant burst of contemporary colour and texture, while the other got my signature, tonal/colour/textural restraint, and an original poem.

As the inscribed version of the little poem cannot be read in full from the sculpture, I’ve made the words visible by arranging them in the thumb-hole of this “palette”.

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River Warrior

A recent sculpture I made of a friend of mine whom I think of as a River Warrior: each summer, for decades now, he chooses a river, sometimes close by, sometimes in far outlying areas of Canada, and sets off to conquer it in his canoe. His preference of travelling companion is a little armful of over-eager positivity, a white Scotty Terrier named Kate. The agenda this summer is a Great Bear Lake tributary to the Mackenzie River in our Arctic Circle.

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Sculptural Figure

I think of this palm-sized bone sculpture now, more or less as a personal art motif that is always poised and ready for a new closeup photo from any angle.

I saw its potential after removing it as just a chunk of solid bone from a pot-roast 36 years ago and immediately began removing cartilage, rounding edges, cutting ovals into its planes to let in air and light, enriching its surfaces with scratched markings; and while I made the final adjustments to its form a dozen years ago, have since shifted the artistic exploration over into photography as its shape and form is so varied that it always offers up an attractive aspect in just about any lighting cast upon it, or any lighting that can be manipulated in a digital darkroom.

 

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Bone Picked, Bone Plated

My obsession with my little sculpture continues.

The bone, in its original state, came from a pot-roast so for this portrait shoot of it I’ve taken it back to a ceramic plate with cutlery and table mat to carry the suggestion that the eyes still find it delectable.

If you have not read elsewhere in this blog, I do wish you to know my diet in recent decades is mostly plant-based.

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Fillière  ©  Apr 15, 2018

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