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Free gifts from artists - an attempt at deconstructing the obligations of sculpture.
By: David Parfitt
This feels like it’ll be a rough ride, please bear with me: Following an offer to relax into the freedom of a project without customary implicit obligations, I’ve chosen to reconsider my practise, deliberately follow paths that I’d probably self-censor and try to avoid the male habit of pretending that I know what I am doing. In short I was up for a risk and thought I’d record bits here.
David Parfitt
I find writing profiles such as these disturbing, primarily because they seem to be about justifying credentials, which in itself is OK, but does seem a bit like attaching a CV to a postcard, in this case.
Needless to say I am fairly normal, the only thing that I probably should point out is a tendency to explore ideas out loud. Some people often mistake these utterances as well considered statements of belief – they usually aren’t, they are more akin to attempts at collaborative understanding. Nevertheless the trouble that this can cause is often worth it.
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