“ Drawing a labyrinth with salt is like following a trace of my memory. Memories seem to change and vanish as time goes by. However, what I seek is the way in which I can touch a precious moment in my memories that cannot be attained through pictures or writings. I always silently follow the [...]
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Refait
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Am I so round with you as you with me, that like a football you do spurn me thus? You spurn me hence, and he will spurn me hither if I last in this service you must case me in leather.
William Shakespeare
Comedy of Errors (1592, Act II)
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Dolls’ Night Out
When looking at a Dutch still life I can see a painter who looked so carefully at the little things in life that they became extraordinary who could picture something as small as an insect on a piece of fruit and make it seem startling.
The same odd exaggeration and methodical execution of obsessive detail I [...]
May
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Save food from the fridge
A storage unit that uses the natural gas emitted by apples to preserve potatoes that lie beneath. Common knowledge in the beginning of the 20th century but since we handed over the responsibility of taking care of our food to the technology, the refrigerator, we seem to be forgotten this kind of traditional knowledge.
Ryou Ji [...]
Apr
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9 Hours in Kyoto
While capsule hotels are not new in Japan, 9 h (nainawasu) adds a new element to the Japanese approach to minimal hotels. The hotel is designed by Fumie Shibata of design studio s, and offers luxury in a minimum living space. It looks absolutely amazing and represents a revolution in the capsule concept.
The name of the [...]
Mar
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Provocative Teapots
Haruka Matsuo likes to play with traditional and habitual concepts. By moving or changing traditional “rules” she likes to arouse a certain feel of imbalance. In this state of imbalance it is possible that new meanings will arise.
Conversations with people about their lives and routines, exploring their habits and habitations, pictures and sketches all these impressions [...]
Dec
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مطار مراكش المنارة
Arriving on Marrakech’s Menara Airport, I was amazed by the aesthetic design of the building – seamlessly fusing contemporary eco-technology with traditional arabic and Islamic design motifs.
This dramatic new airport terminal is an example of how Modernism and traditional Islamic architecture have begun to cross-pollinate. Designed by a team of architects led by Casablanca-based E2A [...]
Dec
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Beach Portraits
Last summer I was sitting at the swimming pool to keep an eye on my kids when I spotted these two teenagers. The girl was about 15 years old and she obviously had grown real fast lately. Her arms and legs were long and skinny and she was having trouble to figure out what to [...]
Dec
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Ten to One
Ten friends having a meal on ten consecutive days in field in the Dutch countryside. Each day the friends, the tables and the food were shifted closer to the horizon. The photographs of the ten meals were assembled into a single image of a large party. Each friend appears ten times in the photograph, each [...]
Dec
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After the Fall
Close to where I live you can find the exact copy of this photo, a wood of deserted aerial devices in the middle of nowhere. It always triggers my imagination so when I saw this photo it immediately made me curious about the story behind it.
The photo belongs to the series ‘After the Fall’ by [...]