I can't seem to systematize an answer to that question. I deal with different things in my daily life. The flow of emotion, thought, ratio is spilled into existence. Perhaps the artistic gesture is impulsive and intuitive. But I think about what is most important in my practical artistry - playing like a child.
In my practice I am involved in theatre, film, dance, performance, museum. I have a relationship to space, I think about it. I'm not sure exactly what approach, but I mean it. I have presented visual art in a "white cube" but also in specific environments, total immersive installations, built spaces to present the work. I suppose I have a certain percentage of a "scenographic" approach to the artistic task, sometimes.
Because humans are verbal creatures, I have to put titles on my works. Descriptive texts, concepts, manifestos are very difficult and scary for me, I gladly avoid them. The question posed would have a much more interesting and useful answer given by psychologists and anthropologists (May and others). Again, I'll speculate, but I think it's adequate - what is the place of image in the creation of texts? First the eye sees, the hand touches, then comes the abstractness of word. The ancient Egyptian hieroglyph depicting the head of a bull, called Aleph, became an abstract geometric figure called Alpha by the ancient Greeks, which gave birth to today's A.
Normal.
I was walking along the rocky bank of a river, just before one of its waterfalls. I saw a rock cavity at water level and thought to myself that there must be something there. I poked around and found a metal ring. I could look at archaeological data to locate a settlement where metal was worked. With excavation and metal detectors, I would find a ring. I could have metallurgical and sculptural knowledge and make a ring. I could pay to have a ring made. I don't know what the place of an exploratory approach is in contemporary art. I didn't use a research approach, I didn't use practical skills, I didn't use financial resources, but I have ring. I was in a particular place, my eyes looked in a particular direction, my impulse told me to poke.
