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Samples for new work - see what becomes of these!

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New work! Necklaces with an unexpected locking mechanism! Video coming soon ...

All 15 x 30 cm.

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Dear New Yorkers,

Myself & Emelie Westerlund (first time collaborator and long time friend) recently made a film in response to Opening Titles' invitation to be part of their Spring 2014 show.

They asked us, “How do we assign meanings to objects?” we attempted to answer over several cups of coffee, wine, emails… I wrote things down, Emelie made objects, we made him. 

He is a Modern Man but maybe not as you’ve seen him before?

If you’re in NYC or will be this weekend you can see him here, alongside several other filmmakers work I wish I could be there to see in the flesh.

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Swimming around in circles - Tokyo 2012

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Sounds like jewellery

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Transportation tool

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There were two main categories of tools in the Oldowan tradition.  There were stone cobbles with several flakes knocked off usually at one end by heavy glancing percussion blows from another rock used as a hammer.  This produced a jagged, chopping or cleaver-like implement that fit easily in the hand.  These core tools most likely functioned as multipurpose hammering, chopping, and digging implements.  Efficient use of this percussion flaking technique requires a strong precision grip.  Humans are the only living primates that have this anatomical trait.  

http://anthro.palomar.edu/homo/homo_4.htm

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Details from new work made during my residency.

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Surface and shape studies

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New pieces in the making!

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Bought it from a factory outlet for industrial waste in Tokyo and brought it all the way back. Why?

"...the scientists found that visitors like shapes with gentle curves as opposed to sharp points. And, the magnetic brain imaging scans of the lab participants prove the team’s first hypothesis to be true: these preferred shapes produce stronger responses and increased activity in the brain."

“Shallow convex surface curvature is characteristic of living organisms, because it is naturally produced by the fluid pressure of healthy tissue (e.g. muscle) against outer membranes (e.g. skin). The brain may have evolved to process information about such smoothly rounded shapes in order to guide survival behaviors like eating, mating and predator evasion. In contrast, the brain may devote less processing to high curvature, jagged forms, which tend to be inorganic (e.g. rocks) and thus less important.” http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/do-our-brains-find-certain-shapes-more-attractive-than-others-180947692/?no-ist

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Unity is defined as ”the quality or state of being made one.  A combination or ordering of parts in a literary or artistic production that constitutes a whole or promotes an undivided total effect.” (Britannica online library edition).

Material and shape - research.

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Some shots I snapped in Tokyo 2012, miss it!

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Simple joys 2

More niceness

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Simple joys

Nice vibes

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Inventory of test pieces - work in progress as part of my residency at ECA.