Idea: Sculpture

Sculpture:
noun
the art of making two- or three-dimensional representative or abstract forms, esp. by carving stone or wood or by casting metal or plaster.
• a work of such a kind : a bronze sculpture | a collection of sculpture.
• Zoology & Botany raised or sunken patterns or texture on the surface of a shell, pollen grain, cuticle, or other biological specimen.
(Oxford American Dictionary)


As I experiment with physically cutting out sections from my prints and play with mounting them away from the wall, I am thinking more about traditional presentation methods, and what it means to break them. The dictionary definition is interesting to me because they define sculpture as either 2 or 3 dimensional, when I've assumed most people consider sculpture purely 3-d. Can prints of photographs be sculptures when raised from the wall and their traditional flat plane interrupted by cutting? I'm not so much worried about finding a word to define my potential process, but I am interested in thinking about sculpture to further inspire my transformation of my prints and enhance my representation of my blocked out areas in my existing images.

Eva Hesse, Untitled (Rope Piece) 1970

One of my favorite "sculptors" who has served as a constant inspiration to me. She often worked in ways that did not normally pertain to sculpture.

Eva Hesse by Lucy R Lippard would be a good text to read to think about how sculpture is perceived, and how sculpture that pushed boundaries of its time was criticized and interpreted. 
"Lucy Lippard’s Eva Hesse combines biography and criticism, formal analysis and psychological readings, to present a complete portrait of the life and work of this complex and compelling artist."


"Sculpture is a three-dimensional object with a message... Painting is an object with a three-dimensional message." (Bob Brendle)


"I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all be equally good." (Benvenuto Cellini)