bonus track
here you'll find my playful side: little experiments, quirky designs and light-hearted projects where i explore ideas outside of my main work. enjoy this insight into my creative playground!
trash piece
i wanted to create a funny object. a small aluminium sheet rescued from the rubbish serves as a platform on which various servomotors move random objects. a small led matrix displays the words ‘stop making sence’. the speed can be changed with a potentiometer.
french fry fork
the classic french fry fork, just like the ones from childhood visits to the public pool – light, made of plastic, often smeared with ketchup and mayo. but this time, it’s different. cast in 935 silver, it takes on a new value, a weight that makes memories tangible. an everyday object, once disposable, is transformed into a lasting symbol of past summer days.
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 fun little project, I 3d printed a hammerhead shark and placed it in the urinal so that it looked like it had been swimming in the yellow water the whole time. a simple, playful installation that captured the situation in a humorous way.
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 simple tools and turned it into art. fascinated by this creativity, i built my own electric tattoo machine from a lego motor, a mechanical pencil, a sewing needle and an old phone charger. the pencil served as a handle, while the motor moved the needle via an eccentric mechanism - an experiment between diy mentality and art.
and so on...
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