David Altmejd: Heads | "Exclusive" | Art21

[DAVID ALTMEJD: HEADS]

[WOMAN, OFF SCREEN] We need something called 'room tone'.

[MAN, OFF SCREEN] So, twenty seconds of silence, please.

[MAN, OFF SCREEN] Room tone...

[ALTMEJD] I see the head as a sort of drawing, you know,

Some sculptors make drawings,

I make heads.

It's just a way of using that frame

to experiment combining colors and materials.

That's the reason I see them as drawing.

They've always been inside my practice.

They've always been inside my landscape.

I think it's really the perfect size.

You know, I think it's like the center of the universe.

I like the idea that the universe was the size of a head

just before the 'big bang', you know?

When I work on a show,

I make the heads just using materials that have been used

in the main pieces.

So, every head that I make is connected to the show in a certain way.

And I take that head, and I just place it in the corner here,

and I place it in the corner there.

Then, I've created that kind of balance that I'm looking for.

I love those ideas of the inside, the outside, the infinite,

the infinitely large, the infinitely small, the mind--

everything is in that head,

so I'm going to keep using that as a frame for my drawings,

I think, forever.