As I am confronting “Cedar and Granite,” I am confronting myself in order to go forward with myself and the work. The piece appears to have, as yet, no distinct up or down. Various views look good in the up position. Other views ask to be there as well, to share a time of being in an up position. That suits them well. How do I deal with this jockeying for position?
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Choose one specific up and down? This doesn’t sit well with me.
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Rotate the piece using some sort of screw mechanism? This is a feature that I haven’t yet become comfortable with.
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Stand it on end, probably cutting the trunk shorter so that the view is not a horizontal one, instead choosing a vertical configuration? This is a view with which I am neither comfortable nor as yet inspired.
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Just buck off the trunk at two meters or so?
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Carve one of those clever designs into the trunk portion?
Why does there not appear to be one specific standing position for viewing?
How can I, by the positioning of the piece, give the viewer the best possible viewing angle? The solution is perhaps to offer lots of viewing possibilities.
As I reconnect with this particular journaling note, I recognize a comparison with my decision to include various written perspectives in the form of sculpting notes. In the writing, I am offering the viewer a variation in viewing possibilities. There is a similar approach utilized to achieve a similar outcome with both sculpting and with writing.
I now understand more clearly why I was not clearly visualizing a definite up-down configuration. The passage of time has brought revelation. I now understand the nature of the then-abstract object I had sculpted…I will, later, offer more clarity as the last few comments may be well worth the reader’s, the experiencer, review later as the significance of the sculpture is revealed. There are within these notes subtle expressions offering clues that I was not yet connecting to the essences that would be understood later. I was unknowingly sensing “possible insights” that suggest premonitions of possibilities.