Earth Site.

Thinking more about the constructions and scale, how and where they may exist. Not having the opportunity, at least at the present, to build in an actual environment, I have been giving thought to some more ideas of the miniature and the appearance of the small looming large. I suppose it goes back again to the idea always in my mind of fitting the cathedral, with all its meaning and affect, into the small space, thus increasing the power in the work. Bottling things up, pent up energy. Of course, it is also about existing within and experiencing my world. I have continued on occasion to have the thoughts of objects creating a presence in a place. 

So, having taking the important time I need to just sit and think, to feel things, wait for something to be felt within me, I saw an open landscape in my thoughts and I wanted to put something in it. Keeping to the idea of the small, I made that place by using modelling and household materials. It was a piece of open countryside sitting on my desk and I gave it life with my mind.  

Anthony Boswell. 'Open Ground, Future Site 1'. Mixed media model. 2012.

It sat on my desk, becoming more of a place as time went on. I added the depth, for a sense of reality. 

Anthony Boswell. 'Open Ground, Site 2'. Mixed media model. 2012. Click image to enlarge.

It waits there now for whatever construction will come to mind, which is the point I am at now. I am certain the interior of the house will still play a part, but it will be an uncertain thing to know how it will respond to the earth site. 

I hope the introduction of a definite place will still bring the feeling and experience of time, stillness, ambiguity. I am certain too, that as I sit and look and be in that piece of country, especially with the construction in place, I will remain in the state of doubt and moving ambiguously through longing and melancholy. 

Anthony Boswell. ' Open Ground, Site as Place'. Mixed media model. 2012. Click image to enlarge.