Visiting Artists

Hasly Rodmon visited the Mason Gross program to talk about his work to the school on September twenty first. His work possessed several interesting ideas that repeated in many of his sculptures, painting, and videos. Though his work was not particularly interesting, he did have several concepts that One of the more interesting things he said about sculpture is that sculpture in the round has no pattern. Plants grow in a predictable way, animals are normally symmetrical, but a sculpture dose not need to fallow any such pattern.

One of his most interesting pieces started as a video and then  became a sculpture. This work started with twelve people standing around a sculpture table attempting to sculpt different parts of the same person. Rodmon recorded the process on a video camera and invited the same sculptures to return one year later to perform the same action again. Rodmon videotaped the action again, and in post production composited the two images. This was an interesting commentary on the difference between the relation of one time complementing another.

Another interesting piece attempted to address the relationship between a human body and a soul. Several pillars with light bulbs on top stood outside. The light bulbs were always on regardless of the time of day and the pillars had the lines, “I am turning into mist” written on the sides. The pillars represented the body and the lights represented the soul. During the day the lights were relatively dim and could not be seen, thought the pillar was visible and dominant. At night, the light bulb dominated the space and the pillar was obscured by the lack of proper illumination. The body and soul were easier or harder to see under the right conditions. This piece was successful and conceptually interesting.