From Idea to Word: A sculptor's encounter with five storytellers

Abstract

Traditionally, sculptural research focuses on the interpretation of works by other artists. In this case, the artistic creation of a sculptor is combined with the artistic creation of five storytellers. To this end, the sculptor, the author of this article, created a series of small-format statuettes from sheets of cut, embossed, chiseled, and welded metal. These statuettes evoked the sculptor's childhood, which was rooted in the customs and traditions of children's games in the Azuayan context. To compare the ideas of other artists, he asked the storytellers to write a short story about what inspired them about the sculptures. The research design adopted was of an autobiographical interpretive nature. The results show certain symbolic similarities in all the sculptures. However, it is observed that the creative freedom of each narrator, in two cases, sticks to the original idea, in another case there is a certain similarity with the original idea, and in two other cases a certain distance from the original idea of the sculptor was found.