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“Sheepfold” looks at one way that an individual, an
individual’s form, is affected by attachment to a particular
group or rather to another individual that is part of a specific
group. This piece began because I had five dry similarly crocheted
fiberglass tubes left over from another project. The tubes had me
thinking about states of sameness which led me to the state of “sheep
mentality”. So I asked “what does sheep mentality look
like in tubes of crocheted fiberglass?” “Sheepfold”
is one answer.
Sheep mentality as form. Individual tubes are connected end to
end rather than side by side. The 5 original small-tight-stitched
tubes are alternated with 6 tubes made with a larger more open stitch
to highlight by contrast their individuality. A distinct individuality
which becomes buried within this segment of a seemingly ongoing
scribbled ramble. Tubes bend to conform to a shape which becomes
more obvious thereby dominant over its individual parts.
Paint. Indication of where the original units start and end is
further wiped out with surface applied oil-based enamel paint which
breaks the continuous line by color, sometimes in the middle of
the original sections, to create a new code, a new rhythm. The new
rhythm is not really a new form just a rehash of the original. The
opaque enamel covers in entirety the inherent beauty of the original
translucent fiberglass. The use of lively neutral colors was a conceptual
necessity but also referential to the form of actual sheep. To me,
in the form of sheep, the beauty is in the long black legs that
are the bottom two-thirds of their bodies topped with the fluffy
soft white which envelopes their heads. The dark colors in “Sheepfold”
are my failed attempts at mixing black from the three primaries.
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