On putting this site together

Good Morning folks, Welcome to the site. This is my first post. Putting this site together, looking at old work and new work, categorising, selecting, editing and archiving has been a nice journey of discovery and learning that I haven’t been on for a while. It’s given me an opportunity to see work in a…

Good Morning folks,

Welcome to the site. This is my first post.

Putting this site together, looking at old work and new work, categorising, selecting, editing and archiving has been a nice journey of discovery and learning that I haven’t been on for a while.

It’s given me an opportunity to see work in a different way and how it might relate to others and even to ‘art in general’ (if there is such a thing).

It has also led me to look and think again on some key works, books, texts or influences that I haven’t looked at or thought about for a while.

These are mostly from the crucible of the art college experience. I fell in love with the library and probably spent more time there than in the studio. You could access a whole world of art and history and theory and discussion on a scale I didn’t know. It was mind expanding.

I read pretty broadly but got particularly interested in minimal and conceptual art and how artists charted new territory as to what art was, could be and what it meant.

I’m not an academic, critic or intellectual but, inspired by Jerry Saltz’s ‘An Ideal Syllabus’, I’ve put together a little list of things from that period that I find interesting and relevant if you like that sort of thing.

I don’t necessarily understand it all but I wanted to put them out there to reflect on.

Thank you. Dom x

Sol Le Witt – Variations of Incomplete Open Cubes, Sentences on Conceptual Art