‘Hands that make’
It was September 2022 when I started the course ‘ New Design and Attitudes’ at the art academy St. Joost in Breda. The first semester was build into 2 periods. The first one being called: Hands that make.
For the subject ‘the involved designer’ we got the assignment to pick 1m2 in the school or at its property and observe it, what happens, who uses it etc. I have always been very fascinated by the reflection of the stained glass windows. So I picked the reflection as my M2. I wanted to capture that reflection in a way it could always be there. I made ceramic cups and put the cups in the reflection at Dutch coffee hours times: 11:00, 13:00 and 16:00. I drew the reflection of that time on the cup and glazed it. This way with every break you take, the reflection of that time will be with you.
For the subject ‘the designer that does research’ the assignment we got was called ‘the book’ After a long brainstorm I decided I wanted to make a ‘long-winded’ story. Long winded being called in Dutch ‘langdradig’ and ‘dradig’ meaning ‘thread’. I started thinking what is the most long-winded story I have ever read and came to the conclusion I did not read that but experienced it, like so many others: finding a room in the city. I researched my ways of finding a room and I made photographs of things I associate with the rooms I have lived in. I assembled them in a room where you have to follow the red line of the story that was of course very long (langdradig).
