The most prominent part of learning about Claire’s practice and artistic interests was her work discovering the unconscious mind and how you can be making work not necessarily knowing what it is you are making or why you are making it, she explained it is okay to not to know. she compared this to the film “Close Encounters Of The Third kind” where the character unconsciously has the urge to make a huge mountain structure, unaware that what he is unconsciously sculpting already exists and he has been inspired but is oblivious to what it is he is making until he sees it on tv.
Sachs, B. (2019). Close Encounters of the Third Kind remains an uncanny mix of globalist optimism and private horror. [online] Chicago Reader. Available at: https://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2017/09/05/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-remains-an-uncanny-mix-of-globalist-optimism-and-private-horror [Accessed 9 Dec. 2019].
This links to her practice where she explained how she had an interview over one of her pieces of work; a large tree like structure, she didn’t know why she made it but it became the elephant in the room during the interview as it wasn’t spoken about. claire explained then how she didn’t know why she made it.
Claire Curneen’s work shown to us in the lecture
The idea of unconscious creations is rather lovely as it allows the artist to make freely without having any barriers or avoidance. similarly to this idea, Jean Arp figuratively sculpts unconsciously creating “organic abstractions.” These pieces created by Arp are named prior to there creation to avoid influence during the making process of the conscious mind.
Winged Being’, Jean Arp (Hans Arp), 1961 | Tate. [online] Available at: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/arp-winged-being-t02007 [Accessed 9 Dec. 2019].
Lara Hoad Artist Designer: Maker 