maandag 23 april 2012

Location as element

I have mainly been working on three elements when it comes to make a sculpture:
- Style; bright colours, mosaiec, Delft blue, cartoon, transformers, funny, freaky, weird, contrast
- Materials; artificial and natural; clay, plastic, wood, stones and bones.
- Me; expressed through the Freakinstyle character and his opinions.
All to form around my theme about how people value things and their systems. A few keywords of this theme are: consumerism, money, marketing, tradition, group behavior and waste.

It is now time to add another, more difficult element: location. So this is about the locations associated with my theme. The problem is not to get to abstract while adding a less tangible element like this. You could think of places like:
- Billboards (marketing)
- The estuary (waste)
- Banks (money)
- Football (group behavior)
- Farm (tradition, but also start of the supply chain)

I am not against consuming or any of the above, I want to add a critical message to how we value things around us. This mostly happens without really thinking and with unlimited trust and belief in others; mainly companies and the systems of which they are part of.

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