2021

In today’s world of globalised image networks, what might the beholder’s share be said to mean? The production of a creative work is integral to the acquisition of knowledge and the understanding achieved when one investigates Realism. This rests upon what we and others report perceiving, and the experience this generates in the viewer.

In order to consider what and how we perceive, to understand how a particular mode of realism is being constructed, is the connection of vision and touch.

Visual input is noisy, incomplete and ambiguous for most of the time and one needs prior association to fill in the blanks to know what’s out there. Both in art (Gombrich) and in science (Albright), the reference to the “beholder’s share” is that part of the perceptual process where the viewer actively participates in the construction of meaning.

This sculpture aims to interrogate modes of representation in order to investigate what factors of vision, understanding and constructed meaning, influences our notion of reality and subsequently our desire for realism.