making things | 2011
making things is radical_hope's >>> niche for free hand work - since 2011. There things are produced in moments when preferring not to do more usefull stuff.
Such moments are regularly lived while waiting somewhere, hanging out together with others, during long travel, sitting in front of a TV, rendering movies …
The materials 'on location' are necessarily unpredictable.
What is literally 'at hand', the moment one gets into the mood of making things, can be used.
making things is neither spontaneous nor premeditated, time and again locating only by doing where it leads to.
made things
• reminders / since 2012 : short wordings, paired with respectively one picture. >>> page
• seat / since 2012 : seat cushions made from materials, found on location. (i.e. soft worn out grinding wheels, old curtain and tape) --> picture 3
• blue keys / since 2011 : two ring binders collecting identical promotional flyers found in trains, planes etc. - one containing the originals, the other modified ('bic-arted') ones, to become a room-high collage one day.
--> picture 1
• whobble / since 2011 : nodule-like objects made from cords, strings, lines etc., found on various locations, knotted in such a way that the 'ensemble' remains ductile, almost eversible, in all directions. --> picture 0, 4
• calligraphy / 2010 : a compilation of texts on 'changeability' found in books or online, written by hand (pencil) into marrokane exercise books, from right to left and from bottom to top. To be continued and copied. --> picture 5
• chien marin's / 2009 - 2010 : drawings evoking little interventions, which were eventually realized in the frame of do you have 5 minutes. --> picture 6 more >>>
• pure panic / 2009 : video-clips / 2009 : while a song is playing video recordings of playing with stuff, (although never wished for), accumulating in the house are made. The footage then gets slowed down 50% and reverted in black & white. --> picture 2
• red-time / 2008 : miniature house made from old and worn out red lego-stones, dating from the 70ie's, eventually glued together : to be used as miniature set for 'exclusively red' photoshoots. --> picture 7 (dedicated to VA & red-shift by Cildo Mereiles)
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