What it is, it isn't.date: 06.2008commissioned by: Ontwerpduo type: limited edition material: wood, pewter, polyurethane dimensions: instrument 140 x 70 x 70 cm, cupboard 200 x 95 x 50 cm photo's: product, scale model, sketch from lens and product trough lens Nomination 3d contest IMM Koln 2009 'If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And, contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?' Text from 'Alice in Wonderland' written by Lewis Carroll. Objects are how we perceive them to be. Our minds make things what they are and for us this is reality. Think of a branch hanging in the water. We see, with the refraction of light, the branch under the waterline in a different angle. But we know that in reality the shape of this branch is different. We learned how to see the world. What if there was an instrument which would change the world into something that we find strange? And better, what if this instrument can also change it back? Does the world really look how we think it is, or does the world look like we want it to be? This question can be asked by looking at this project, with or without this particular instrument. I worked with the refraction of light as a basic principal for a new form language. I designed a different world, a strange world. In this new world there still is a possibility to go back to the world we know. 'Showing the world for what it isn't, or is it?' With the instrument it is possible to reshape objects, spaces and architecture. download high resolution pictures 123456789 |
