Multiples

Public Art for Anyone and Everyone


The work consists of a pin-on button and the instructions on how to wear it properly. The button is 1 inch in size and the image on its surface consists of a small brown heart on a white background. From a distance it takes on the form of a beauty mark and up close, one can recognize that it is actually a heart. The work was work created as a small passive device for encountering and exposing blemishes. The text that accompanies the button and explains how to use the device reads as follows: “Of all the treasures of the world, one’s own is always the last to be dug up. Pin the button to your clothes at any point under which there is a beauty mark to be found on your body and “dig up” one of your own treasures and show it to all.” Each person who “performs” the work is made conscious of exposing a “blemish”; as more and more people where the button, the more it becomes publicly visual and the more media stereotyping is put into question.


HOMMAGE
a miniature museum for a spaghetti box


The work consists of three elements: A spaghetti box, a miniature of Michelangelo’s David, and a postcard of Rome at sunset. The spaghetti box is used as a miniature museum for displaying the sculpture of David. The postcard is in actuality a multicolored light gel that is used to color the light inside the box to imitate the effects of a sunset.  In its austerity of material, , the work acknowledges the social crises and the tragedy through loss of life during the COVID19 pandemic. By so doing, it pays homage to the strength of dedication of the health workers in Italy during the Pandemic. To experience the work, the viewer looks through the end of the box while moving the postcard across the window of the box while focusing the eye on the miniature figure of David inside. If we can draw a simple conclusion out of a biblical story, it can be said that David defeated the giant Goliath with spirit and it is that the artists attempts here as a metaphor for the spirit with which the health workers stood together to fight an enemy with the means available.


an amusing inflation of a deflating sense of things


VANISHING BIRDS: The work focuses the general lack of concern for the preservation of the environment which stems from the wide spread belief that humans are the most important life form on earth.   The balloons are  printed with an image thatis used to warn birds of glass. Inflated with one's own air, the balloons evoke the image of a  surrogate for animal life on earth. Although, the artwork is engaged by bouncing it through the air together with others to have fun,  it truly a ironic warning that we as a life form may be ignorantly becoming extinctt ourselves.
 

Flights of Fancy for a Set of Paper Airplanes as Art Multiples

The art-multiple “ Chocolate, Sex and Heroin” is a set of art-placebos for anybody not interested in embracing the dangers of hedonistic activities referred to in the title in their real form, but is never the less seeking a form of wonderment allowing them to embrace the “dreamatic” aspects of the mind, and to do this inconspicuously and without addictions, and social complexities that such indulgences inevitably bring. To experience any one of the three “fancy flights” provided, simply select your flight, get ready, concentrate, embed the idea in the mind, close your eyes and then,get ready, empty your mind, cock your hand back, and let go with or without a goal, a target, or reason. Let the plane glide along with your fantasy to produce the proper affect based on the your selection made, whether this be sex, chocolate, or the imaginative effects of a strong opium based drug.



A Do it Yourself Moon Coloring Kit


Nine Levels between Heaven and Earth is basically a community service art multiple celebrating -in a way- the first Chinese manned flight program culminated in Yang Liwei’s on October 15, 2003, placing China the third country to  rocket humans into outer space. The project quotes the title of Yang Liwei’s book “Nine Levels between Heaven and Earth” and the project’s concept is much inspired by the detailed information about food presented in that book.The project therefore partially focuses on the eating of food in space and how this -in the words of Qi Faren- and that this would be for many the most important reasons for carrying out any space program:  “to enable humans to work normally in space.”The Nine Levels Kit includes two minimalist, abstract, conceptually based art works for black ink on crumpled paper, a fleet of three paper airplanes “Chocolate, Sex & Heroin” for flights of fancy, a receipe for “Leeky Noodles” -included to remind one of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico- and a “DYI-Blinking-Chopstick-Trainer”. The Chopstick Trainer comes with a roll-out placemat with a partial image (1 /35) of the moon’s surface that combines with the other roll.-out placemats to create a full image of the moon, a set of chopsticks and the electronics to make them blink ras one eats. The electronics provided come with either a red, green or blue LED, which we used in combination with others (while eating noodles, for example) colors the moon so that when asked the question “What color is the moon?”, one knows the answer without speaking.

 


 

 
SPAGHETTI FIBIONACCI
 an almost traditional pasta recipe for traveling with the mind

In mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers are the numbers in the following integer sequence: 0 1 2 3 5 8 13 21... where the first two numbers in the sequence are 0 and 1 and each subsequent number is the sum of the previous two. The Fibonacci sequence is named after Leonardo of Pisa who was known as Fibonacci. The work is in the form of a “performative recipe” in a new version of a traditional Italian pasta dish.  Although the recipe is an artistic twist on tradition, it does so two point out that on the one hand that traditions change and in that way stay alive and relevant to society, and on the other hand that one learns to see cooking as an artist act that is to be savored and that to do so we must slow the experience of food preparation and consumption back down to a more healthy tempo. 

a magic  mug for coffee or any other warm substance


Most stories are told and many begin with “once upon a time”, So, rather than telling a story, the artwork “Drink Me Love Me Be My Friend” invites you to taste something magically warmed. Once upon a time there was a very capricious young girl who just didn’t want to eat and who hated drinking milk so much that she would pour it into her mother’s blooming and not yet bloomed flowers. This made the mother angry, the neighborhood angry, and even the cat got very, very angry with her for feeding the flowers with “its” milk. In turn and as the story goes, her father, more sensible about the young girl’s capriciousness, invented a magic syrup. It was kept in a small brown bottle and closed with a white cap. The label read: “A P P E T I T E S Y R U P” . It tasted almost like normal strawberry juice, but for the girl it possessed for some reason a great power: One small spoon before dinner, one small spoon before breakfast and second servings found their way on her plate or bowl and the hunger its way out of the dining room and the lunch room, and off the picnic table. Suddenly, all were happy again and eating, eating rice-carrot-beetroot-tomato soup without caring much about true world of realities of the real taste of that rice-carrot-beetroot-tomato soup hiding behind the loving taste of her father’s syrup. “Drink me Love me Be my Friends” is still available by prescription for not only those with enoy eating disorders, but also for those who like “once upon a time” bedtime stories with a warm cup of milk and a happy cat.
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