This week I went to a lecture by Corin Hewit a sculptor and photographer. The piece he spoke the most about was a project called Seed Stage which was installed in the Whitney. For Seed Stage Hewitt built a room in the museum and filled it with a vast variety of materials and tools. He had various types of food including a root cellar where he could grow more vegetables as well as an oven, hot plates and all the equipment needed to manipulate the food. He also had drills, a bandsaw, materials for mold making and printers and various other objects and tools.
For three months he just worked in this space manipulating the objects around him in various ways and photographing them. The resulting photos were not manipulated in anyway and were displayed around the gallery.
Some of the photos are deliberately composed and some happened spontaneously in the space. Hewitt emphasized the importance of looking in this project. He spent the majority of his time looking at his surroundings and then working off of what he found. The corners of the room were cut off so the viewer could observe him and be a part of the looking as well. I really love this piece. In my work recently I have been thinking a lot about process and the actual action of creating your work and I really like the idea of just creating a space for yourself with this huge wealth of materials and then just working from what is around you. Manipulating objects purposefully as well as accepting spontaneous compositions and creations.
This video gives a really good sense of the piece.
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