Workshop with Ralph Borland

Things to consider when coming up with ideas for a project:

• Reworking of what's already there
• Form/function
• Choices (artists continually making)
• Transforming Material
• Aesthetics (beautiful or not?)
• What is the function of the piece?
• Communication as a function
• Symbolic language as a function
• Provocative
• Visual language, symbolic language
• Language of materials
• Metaphore
• What's youre relationship with what's already there?
• Researching stage -What's already there?
• How widely understood are your symbols?
• What can you expect the audience to know?
• You can rely on your audience to read the work
• And read into the work
• Tension between two systems intersecting
• Tension between opposites
• What is the role of the artist for you?
• Provocater?
• Part of a family or artists and artworks offering alternatives?
• Humour
• What is the responsibility of the artist?
• How broad or narrow are your audiences?