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This article presents a play-script as a research artefact whose dialogue inquires into the holes found in Barbara Hepworth’s sculpture Epidauros II (1961a) through the author’s practice of chemical-lace making; two makers who consider holes in very different media. This dialogue continues with the development of a taxonomy, not of a universe of holes but rather of the microcosm of an individual hole. This taxonomy counterpoints the different objects of discourse which take form as four viewpoints: 1st Person - the hole’s maker; 2nd Person - the hole’s user; 3rd Person - the hole’s viewer; and, 4th Person - the ontological hole
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Why is it important?
Together with threads and knots, holes are shown to be an essential element of lace
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As a lace-maker I am struck by the ambiguous context of lace: the lace shapes its holes, which in turn shape the lace and yet these holes form no part of its traditional classification system. I often wonder why a classification of lace is not centred around the visual characteristics of its holes? However, if holes are to become an element of such a classification then it is necessary first to establish their existence. In this paper, a hole’s ontological status is discovered through practice as an alternative route from that of logic, which has so far failed to provide coherent answers in metaphysics
Paul Reynolds
University of the Arts London
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This page is a summary of: A taxonomy of holes in lace, JAWS Journal of Arts Writing by Students, June 2020, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/jaws_00011_1.
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