Sculpture: up until the Modern period of art, sculpture was predominantly of the human form (animal form).

Professor at NAS: "If a sculpture isn't of the human body, then what do artists make sculptures of? Is a sculpture of a chair simply a chair? This is the predominant question that sculptors attempt to answer in their practices."

Artists must decide on the general direction of their art, what sort of 'questions' they are going to attempt to answer in their practice.

Execution:

• Balancing the concept and the execution of the piece. The physicality of the work should reflect and communicate the concept behind the piece, and it should executed to a high standard.
• In the same sense the concept should be highly resolved and evoke patterns of thought in the audience that echo thereafter viewing the piece in their consciousness.

Direction of practice:

• The human condition and existentialism
• Questions of abstraction and perception
• Exploration of how audiences interpret and understand artworks, how meaning is communicated
• Developing new modes of meaning, subtle modes, reliant on psychology
• Indirectly approach notions of politics, society, by exploiting meta-narratives and reliance on metaphysical concepts, philosophy

Aesthetic:

• Rich hues that are subtly but immediately recognizable, as Kubrick's cinematic aesthetic was
• Understanding of geometry present
• Sharp and powerful dynamics
• Speed, or lack thereof - "images must be slowed down to give a clear space for the eye" A la Viola, Eno
• Sound...?