Not so long ago, I published a post on this blog with an image that aimed to explore some of my concerns around masculinity. Following feedback and further consideration I made an alternative image starting with the same source image. It is more personal and perhaps more meaningful but still has many shortcomings. Below I will discuss the additional concerns that this image recognises which were not acknowledged in the first.
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This writing is a response to an image I made recently which was done in the pursuit of finding knowledge through my practice as an artist… …First by photographing myself in what could be described as a topographic way, then by manipulating the image to bring it closer into accord with an intuitive notion of what is expected of bodily masculinity.
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I first tried the art of stone balancing a few years ago. If recollection serves me right, it was a journey inspired by a serendipitous encounter with images or a video of balance sculptures served up to me via social media. These beautiful, often improbable forms of stacked stones, large and small, resonated strongly with me. They reminded me of Alexander Calder’s Mobiles but also times when in nature I had encountered occurrences of boulders falling to rest in unlikely, apparently precarious ways.
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