Sunday, January 14, 2007


Maltwood’s work could also be seen as expressive of a similar interaction between individual subjectivity, physical forms,space and intersubjective worlds. This interactive process emerges from her interpretation of the landscape of Glastonbury and its surrounding landscape in terms of astrological and Arthurian motifs.

She does not create sculptures, as Wenger does, but she also develops forms that she interprets as representing mythic values realised through the landscape and as actualised in terms of figures expressive of astrological forms. The fact that the interpretation of these figures requires an ingenious interpretation of landscape formations as well as a generosity of imagination implies that her interpretations are fundamentally imaginative.

At the same time, however, once the imaginative and therefore, heuristic character of her figural interpretation of landscape is established, the ingenuity of her interpretations becomes evident. One is invited to contemplate and speculate upon the human mind’s integration of the physical universe to its own perceptual capacities and dispositions.

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