Iede Reckman

The creation of a sculpture is a process that, for me, has strong comparisons to natural phenomena. I see nature as an optimal balance between random and calculated influences. In my work I try to accomplish a similar balance; visualized in its appearance as well as through the applied concepts and processes. With constructions that depict the logic of their own rhythms, repetitions, and variations, I search for spatial conclusions that refer to their conceptual origin and the encountered process. The logic of nature is comprehended, in particular in science and mathematics, within areas beyond our perceptible experience. Such scientific and mathematical principles are bases that I translate to a human scale and visual language. I look for solutions to construct and ‘re-invent’ physical models, which have proven to be essential or have the potential to understand these principles. By specifying the choice for their underlying fundaments, I try to approach a primary issue considering sculpture: the necessity to sculpt to understand space, or the impossibility to understand space without sculpting. My sculptures and installations consist largely of constructions that deal with sightlines that structure the view of the observer. The constructions within the installations occupy space and at the same time they create new spaces. They arrange their own position in the space in which they present themselves as well as the position of the observer and of the elements within and around. Therefore I want to make the observer aware of his or her essential role in the experience of the work. The visualization from idea to sculpture, offers the essential conditions to direct the experience to an area where the mental and the physical merge, as much for the observer as for the maker. Hence an abstraction of time and space, supplementary in these mental projections, becomes part of the perception. My aim is to create work that visualizes these physical and mental processes and consequently let the work become a reflection and index of those.