In our last Kick-About, we explored the calm forms and considered spaces of Barbara Hepworth, thinking about shape, balance, and the quiet language of sculpture. This week, as December arrives, the prompt turns to something a bit more festive: bauble—a decorative object that can be bright, playful, curious or absurd. As always, the works that follow were made in a short time—and for all previous editions of The Kick-About, go here.
Graeme Daly
“I planned on just drawing some baubles, but then I ended up drawing interiors to house them!”
@graemedalyart / vimeo.com/graemedaly / linkedin.com/in/graeme-daly / twitter.com/Graeme_Daly / gentlegiant.ie
Kerfe Roig
“I actually have a collage box with round things, many of which are baubles, so I collaged some of them together. The poem may or may not relate.”
Baubles
whims make no
sense – they have no past
or future –
they are just
desires that have settled in
to this form or that
resplendent
promises with no
quintessence –
fantasies
attired in the artifice
of the here and now
kblog.blog / methodtwomadness.wordpress.com
James Randall
“Embrace the festive triz!”
Gary Thorne
“With December now an acceptable month to see/hear/smell seasonal excess, this timely KA supports that launch. This began as a bauble tree hang, hence the base loop, then veered off towards a wall hang, but reached KA heights as a wonky container for seasonal treats.”
Vanessa Clegg
“My ‘bauble’ is a bouncy exercise ball I was given (not for anything energetic), so my thinking roamed towards other planets and alien objects landing on earth. It’s cobbled together in my studio, so finding ‘bits’ was a challenge and involved a trip to the local charity shop for people to resemble earthlings… sadly only a couple, but then monsters and a unicorn might well be a better analogy for where we are at the moment?… The silver bauble offers hope!”
vanessaclegg.co.uk / vanillaclegg
Phil Gomm
“This began with an earworm—the phrase, ‘You’re a bauble, Barbara—a toy—nothing more!’ After that, as is the way with stories, it was a matter of figuring out to whom this scrap of dialogue belonged—and who ‘Barbara’ might be. The resulting ballad, if you can call it that, was fun to figure out and I enjoyed getting to grips with all the period detail. In common with ‘Leonard Snell and the Spiders’, the decision to use a traditional rhyming structure came from the games you can play with words, and the intensity of character and place it offers up. It was a near-thing, getting this done in time, but I had the pleasure of working again with actor Dan Snelgrove, who was up for bringing this caper to life, and giving voice to its motley crew of characters.“
philgomm.com / behance.net/Phil_Gomm
Next time, our prompt draws on an ancient midwinter festival of feasting, mischief and role-reversal – a little seasonal chaos to play with….
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