Black explains her haptic approach to making in relation to psychology, and cites Melanie Klein’s play technique – a method used to analyse very young children through their negotiation of the physical world rather than through language – as a contextual source. For Black, this sublingual articulation mirrors the sculptural process and offers the possibility for the work to achieve its own communication and agency. Nothing Is A Must is made from chalked sugar paper. It’s uplifted exaggerated form is like an open bag, made simultaneously monumental and flaccid. (Saatchi Gallery Website)
Black prefers the questions of her work to be ones about - what are the consequences of this sculpture? How does it function/operate in the world?
You get the sense from the above work of the raw energy and physicality involved through its sheer size and form. Through the fundamental use of chalk, ribbon, lipstick and glitter hairspray onto sugar paper, Black places us into the real world through these tenuous everyday materials.
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