Bowl - Arabia
diameter 50 cm, height 16 cm, for sale
This bowl is a variation on an earlier work from 1999. It illustrates that a minor change can
have a dramatic effect. Both objects have been made from pyramidal parts,
but in this work, these building blocks have been folded open, giving an
almost transparent appearance to the work from certain angles.
A typical aspect of the way I work, which is visible not only in this
work but in all of them, is that a certain texture, a surface effect arises
by the process of construction itself rather than by deliberate modification
of the surface or by punching a pattern or anything similar into it. The
scaly scin of a fish, crocodile leather, tree-bark, a pricking cactus,
seashells or the interplay of lines in a plank are examples taken from
nature that show how a growth process or an inner structure can lie at the
root of a certain surface appearance. The same can be seen in my works: by
coupling a number of simple geometrical bricks, a complex appearance is
generated and minor changes in the elementary blocks cause a drastic change
in the overall aspect.
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