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Here you'll find my playful side: small experiments, spontaneous side projects as a reaction to random occurrences, and light-hearted projects in which I try out new ideas away from my main work.
trash piece
I wanted to create a fun object: an aluminium sheet rescued from the rubbish bin serves as a base on which servomotors move objects. An LED matrix displays the words ‘Stop Making Sense’, and the speed can be controlled using a potentiometer.
trash piece, 320mm x 400mm x 180mm, 2024
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french fry fork
The classic french fry fork from the outdoor pool – light, made of plastic, often smeared with ketchup and mayo. But this time it's different: cast in 935 silver, it has weight and value. A former disposable product becomes a lasting symbol of summer days gone by.
935 silver, 87mm x 11,5mm
you are not banksy
At our university, there was a strict ban on graffiti in the toilets. As an ironic response, I painted two surveillance cameras and hung them up in the restroom as supposed monitoring devices. The work plays with the absurdity of controlling creativity in public spaces and questions who actually gets to define artistic expression.
acrylic on canvas, 320mm x 320mm
urinal reef
Our toilet was blocked for weeks and couldn't be used. As a little fun project, I printed a hammerhead shark and put it in the urinal so that it looked as if it had been swimming in the yellow water the whole time – a guardian of this little habitat.
3d printed hammerhead shark pla , 140mm x 52mm
tattoo machine
A documentary film about a Mexican prison inspired me to build an improvised tattoo machine. The inmates there decorated leather with the simplest of means and created art. Fascinated by this creativity, I built my own machine from a Lego motor, a mechanical pencil, and a sewing needle.
and so on...
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