Descriptive summary Ritchie

After creating my fire drawings I noticed the marks I created were actually negative spaces of wood that were left unaltered by the welder. This brought up the idea of positive and negative spaces and the importance of the negative space in an artwork, without negative space positive space wouldn't exist. Moving forward with this idea I intend to investigate ways of creating a sculpture by taking away material rather than accumulating it. Creating a negative space, or a 'reverse sculpture', where the subject of the work is the presence of an absence. Asking questions of representation.. can something be represented by nothing?

To create these works I'm going to move from the mark making processes into processes of removing information/deletion, but still working with the element of chance to decide the aesthetic outcome of the works. I'll begin using the easily accessible sculptural materials such as wood, ceramics and metal, but start to thinking about less traditional materials and the possibility of site specific works.