Sarah Woodfine
One question I’ve been repeatedly pondering in Unit 2 is: how should one treat the objects within a painting, and how ought one to negotiate the relationship between the image and the canvas?
Sarah’s “Painting Sculpture” offers some possibilities. Like her, I also chose to produce quiet, precise images in black, white, and gray—but she regards the canvas with a sculptural eye, engagement with the material nature of drawing is explored three dimensionally into sculptural form, asking questions about the nature of materiality in relation to perception. She has an interdisciplinary practice that is rooted in the process of drawing in its expanded form. Her works operate at a level that is realistic though imaginary, being pictures formed of natural elements distended or distorted so as to assume a fantastic otherness.