Abstract Non-objective Concrete Minimal

As per the previous post, and my statement 'My language is the abstract form' on 'The Constant' page on the roposculpture website: http://www.rosemariepowellsculpture.co.uk/Now.html 

Abstract in the sense of 'works of art which, though they may start from the artist's awareness of an object in the external world, proceed to make a self-consistent and independent aesthetic unity in no sense relying on an objective equivalence'; 'the construction of works of art from non-representational basic forms (often simple geometric shapes); 'spontaneous, free expression'; 'with the implicit notion that the work of art exists in its own right, and not necessarily as a mirror of reality'.
Here, therefore, in the sense of NOT derived through abstraction.

Non-objective, 'usually but not always geometric and inspired by Plato, who believed that geometry was the highest form of beauty; may attempt to visualize the spiritual and can be seen as carrying a moral dimension, standing for virtues like purity and simplicity --> Minimal'.

Concrete, 'abstract art entirely free of any basis in observed reality with no symbolic implications'.

Minimal/Minimalism, 'extending the abstract idea that art should have its own reality and not be an imitation of some other thing. ... works in very simple geometric shapes ... works that explore the properties of their materials. ... offers a highly purified form of beauty. ... representing such qualities as truth (because it does not pretend to be anything other than what it is), order, simplicity, harmony'.

In reference to He Wenjue: 'there are two important things in contemporary art: intellectual content and emotion'.

2013

The things that inspire for 2013 clay white black process visible process process visible material respect honour material otherwise why work with it the spiral the sphere delicate fragile inner space grouping spaces between light and dark light and shade plaster texture gravity delicate chance interact with chance enjoy chance invite chance beware of artifice fine balance fine line clay black white coils spheres figures of 8 extending from spheres Merete Rasmussen Grégoire Scalabre Anne Marie Laureys Edmund de Waal throwing pots that feeling when you're pushing out the clay with your thumb to form the wall the side and pulling up the clay between your fingers what a feeling! delightful bliss Japanese pottery simplicity imperfection imperfect because beyond perfection is destruction can objects hold memories today's obsession with objects objects have a story a life your material has a life your art-works have a life a story of importance painting colour blue sky our Blue Planet Planet Earth space infinity black cosmos white purity clarity minimal light raw umber earth monochrome paint thick and thin Einstein on the Beach pushing the boundaries finding the essence finding the essence to push the boundaries Philip Glass Arvo Pärt music inspires work work inspired by music re-awakening our connection with the cosmos Mevlana Dervishes whirling the spiral contraction expansion right-handed spiral left-handed spiral descending ascending clockwise anti-clockwise expansion contraction we are part of the cosmos survivre la difficulté d' être the human condition la condition humaine the fragility of life that moment that split second when a person's life changes for ever I'm interested in that moment fragility of life l' élégance du hérisson what is life what is art survivre la difficulté d' être what is art Muriel Barbery Edmumd de Waal Bernard Leach truth to materials Abstract Non-objective Concrete Minimal