Dealing with Ordinary Form

On the occasion of the exhibition A New Spirit in Booking I investigated the three-dimensional and sculptural possibilities of tracing drawings, where the (overlapping) forms of the tracings are materialised into sculptural objects. The tracings are an in-between stage in the process of making sculpture with the ordinary objects. They allow me to see the ordinary objects on an abstracted and formal level. The transformative process into three dimensions is about investigating new sizes, all in relation to the idea of the table as a mental landscape. Throughout my practice, the table, with its functional and spatial qualities, has been a continuous source of inspiration. The table is an object that creates the possibility to arrange things. I can react to this by creating new spatial and poetic readings of the table as concept. The table and its particular size can establish the conditions by which space is defined. One of the things that particularly interests me about the table is the way it is perceived in space. A tabletop is held up in space at a height of approximately 70 cm, and when looking at a table we are usually presented with a nice overview of the tabletop. To me this overview is like having a birdâs-eye view of a landscape. In this way, I read the tabletop as ground level, with the possibility to dig and carve into it and construct on top of it. The tabletop, to me, generates the possibility to create things that have to do with the relationship between the two- and three-dimensional and between the horizontal and the vertical. This notion of the table as landscape has also inspired to make tables in particular scales and from materials, such that a new poetic meaning of the table as a mental landscape can be experienced.status: publishe