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The confrontation with a new culture and a different economic system
leads to confusion, but at the same time wonder: a contact with that is
much colder, a colour palette you can hardly call coloured.
Throwing away and buying anew is the norm. “My God, what am I doing here,
is this the promised land, what a mess, how ugly.”
A culture that inclines to decadence, threatens to die in its own dirt,
becomes buried by its garbage. Waking up on a rubbish-dump gives a feeling
of discomfort, but it also excites.
The wonder about the unknown gives the possibility to look upon things
out of their context. Aversion does the same. Rules about beauty are of
no consequence, utilities get a new function, fashion has no meaning.
The forced move to another society leads to resistance, brutal or subtle.
“I hang a bicycle-lock around your neck, beautiful, isn’t it ?”
The feeling of self-esteem and personal beauty cries out for recognition
in a situation of isolation and displacement. Recognition that, through
a lack of communication, can only be found by one-selves.
Incomprehension, denial, prejudice and being surrounded by ugliness leads
to the creation of a new world, a new beauty build upon a basis on which
no-one dares to lean.
The collection exists mainly of neck-ornaments in diverse materials.
The choice of material is reached by coincidence, by visual perception
of the surroundings.
A sharp eye for the seemingly useless objects often delivers the base
materials for new creations, whereby the process of taking the original
function out of its context is a vital part. The purity of the material
becomes, by a simple technique, an ornament or necklace.
No use of soldering, acids or other preparations. Even if the artist didn’t
want to add a story to his or her artwork and rather concentrate on the
material and the working process, then still he tells a story. About simplicity
or about the organic evolution of a product.
Giving an answers to the question why these things have the form they
posses is extremely complex. Sometimes a forced situation gives support
to the artist. Over-consumption, throw away society, earth pollution,
these are facts where upon artists react by the use of material that has
already been used.
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