'Catching Words[Prelude 1850]2015'© N.Gear

The 'Catching Words' project alluding to the process of Wordsworth pacing his top terrace at Dove Cottage,Grasmere,has taken place at the Wordsworth Museum,Grasmere.
Search 'Catching Words' on YouTube to see the interview I did about the installation; the materials used & the reasons the work came about.

https://youtu.be/8Vp9RRtPj7g

'Catching Words' © 2015 N.Gear

My 'Catching Words' project is ready to go to the Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere, The Lakes, UK and will run from the 19th Sept to the 3rd October 2015.

It considers William Wordsworth's process of pacing the top terrace at Dove Cottage whilst he composed his poetry, trying to find the 'right words'

'Two Sided Form'© 2015 N.Gear

Continuing with the theme of casting from found debris this two sided form has been completed.
It's finished with walnut crystals similar to the process Henry Moore undertook with his plaster sculptures.
This line of enquiry builds on my recent drawing work 'Edgelands', links to research on Wittgenstein, and alludes to the Coxmoor landscape that I've stepped through.

Inspired by the exhibition currently at Yorkshire Sculpture Park of the work of Henry Moore particularly his use of plaster I've been completing casts of found debris, collected whilst walking. It continues to consider what we don't (or choose not to) see in the environment and alludes to an archeological find; a sense of the past revealed in our present.

'Catching Words' proposal for A.L.L 2015

Whilst walking I find that thoughts and ideas meander through my mind and then in the next moment can come into sharp focus, even whilst observing the physical environment I'm in.
This process of moving from one reality to another is one which Wordsworth would have recognised as vital to his own creative process, and the act of 'catching words' for his poems.
My proposal for Art language Location 2015' gives the viewer a way of exploring these notions of reality and creativity that Wordsworth would have experienced.

'Catching Words'© N.Gear 2015

Working on an idea for www.artlanguagelocation.org/all2015-callout/  using the oak galls I've collected whilst walking in Coxmoor woods. 
Wordsworth the poet used oak gall ink when writing which I'm alluding to in using the galls for this idea.
The galls are set to 'float' on wire, with words written on to be metaphorically 'caught' and used creatively as if Wordsworth pacing up and down on his top terrace at Dove Cottage in the Lake District.

'Thynge' N.Gear 2015

The artist Nelson Duplexcito talks of the resistant image and this new work considers that notion, where what you see is not easily deciphered. Made up of 14 individual A2 prints montaged together looking at the evidence of our lives and impact within the liminal landscape.

'[Out Of Play]' N.Gear 2015

My work into the 'Eye' image is complete and is preoccupied with ideas around Phenomenology ,how do we see the world and what's our understanding of reality?
In addition Agnes Varda the Film Director said of her work 'I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see'.