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One of my favorite subjects to try to resolve as sculpture is that of springboard
and high board diving. This was my sport when young, through which I met my wife
who also a diver. The problems posed by this subject are those of expressing movement
and grace, athleticism and style, as well as trying to convey the sensation of
flight. This is one of the most exhilarating aspects of diving, those rare moments
when you feel no pull of gravity and are flying. I have been playing with bundle
of problems for many years and I made my first attempt in the 1960's when living
and working as a member of the Digswell Arts Trust, in Hertfordshire. It was after
about two or three years of trying different devices, to help create the illusion
of flight, that I realized that the old diving manuals we used to learn the formation
and performance of complex diving movements were also the key to my sculptures.
My divers therefore do not seek to create an easy path to imparting the sensation
of movement, by for instance, being off balance, and seeming to intimidate the
viewer. I have set myself rules prompted by my studies of the morays of traditional
sculptural which, to some degree, are also embodied in the diving manual diagrams.
I believe therefore that the forms of sculpture, in which balance and the disposition
of form and weight about a stable centre, contained within its own base area,
provide the best framework to work to. This achieves a good solid grounding and
stable physical presence, whilst allowing freedom to experiment in the narrative
depiction of movement. The task is to imply a continuous state of moving from
one position to another, so that even a figure that is expressing stillness alludes
to its previous position or sequence of movements as well as to those to come.
The objective is not to freeze an action but encapsulate enough of its typical
sequences of movements. This means paying attention to the physical personality
of the kind of athlete shown, remembering that bodies develop according to use
exercise and environment. A good knowledge of working anatomy enables me to take
liberties and using a specific individual sometimes helps with the depiction of
particular idiosyncratic movement. The objective after all is to make a sculpture,
an equivalent to, not a duplicate of the living person. In recent diving sculpture
I have managed to find solutions that please me very much. One particular case
is the piece I made for a private swimming pool where I made a six foot high bronze
of a male and female diver - SHERWOOD DIVERS, shown in the position for a head
first entries and placed in the water with the hands just touching the surface.
This gives a feeling of weightlessness to the heavy bronze it also creates very
good reflections and depth of colour ".
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