Reptition N°7/147 of infinite; 2015; variable sizes; prints from a ground glass object (lover 7) with acrylic colour on milimeter paper, foto: K.v. Rancken

Reptition N°7/147 of infinite; 2015; variable sizes; prints from a ground glass object (lover 7) with acrylic colour on milimeter paper, foto: K.v. Rancken



I am following my urge to investigate the materiality and form of glass. I am interested how shapes can interact with each other.  What happens if you melt hot bubbles together, how do they fold, melt, stick together and become one or not? To investigate those forms and to grasp the Gestalt of these explorative pieces, I grind them and make prints from the rim. Almost like an autopsy or cross-section, I slice the forms and then trace their cross-sections to create prints on paper. This I do until they are physically gone. Nevertheless they continue to exist in a different form of being. I wonder if one can understand those glass shapes better if they are sliced and ‘reduced’ to a sequence of two-dimensional images? Or does this take away the ‘magic’ of the whole piece?