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John Running-Johnson
Sculpture, for me, is the
poetry of form, space, and light. My first look at any sculpture
is reaction on that level. From that point of view I see every
sculpture as abstraction. The earliest impulse to build “Mask”
was pure abstraction. Then there is the literal and the psychological.
Literally a mask is something worn with a face behind it, for
the wearing of such adornment there exists a myriad of worldwide
reasons.
The other mask, the one that is a face forced by circumstance
to not show emotion or intuition,
many wear daily. “Mask” the sculpture, attempts to
provoke a kind of comparative contemplation between the literal
and the other. |
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TIME: time passes slowly, or
it moves on with great velocity, or perhaps it stands still.
How does a sculptor, the constructor of solid objects, depict
time? In the case of this sculpture, it is done by the implication
of movement, the subordinating of the design to one direction,
by turning the mask into a sail, by setting it upon a boat-shape,
by building a certain |
