Brooch: Pink Tradition 2009
Steel, nail varnish, rost, glass, silk floss, stainless steel pin
statment:
The world around us changes, mixes, grows, becomes a melting pot of different people and cultures.
This development offers a lot of advantages in terms of communication and exchange.
Globalisation helps us to unite the world, but also threatens to homogenise difference and individuality.
‘Higher, faster, better’ seems to be the idea that is settled in the human mind, being influenced by
advertisement and stimulus satiation. The outside world becomes more and more important and in turn
the internal world, developing one’s own uninfluenced ideas, seems to loose its value. For the individual
to find a way to break out of that dynamic becomes more and more difficult. In a time of satellite systems,
mobile phones, identity cards and CCTV surveillance, a physical escape is doomed to remain a dream.
While the adventurers of ancient times could look at the horizon and imagine, dreaming today is interfered
with skyscrapers and television broadcasts.
One way of escape I think, can be found in a self-created realm of fantasy; there one might find a way of feel
free, can indulge one’s needs and desires.
My work is concerned with the idea of finding access to the world of dreams, desires and wishes.
I view my pieces as witnesses of experiences made in reality, but being transferred to a place of fantasy.
The pieces are meant to offer the viewer access points, pathways and doors to the world of dreaming and
the inner self.
There we find the resources and strength needed to carry on living in reality. Without dreams, one
becomes a robot.
