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The enviable serenity of a Scandinavian furniture catalogue,
contaminated with thought.

Photo: Heiko Pfreundt
This work began when I acquired a malfunctioning electric typewriter which scrambles every key into a different letter. I interpreted its glitchy layout and wrote fragmented, hesitant lines of poetry directly onto found printed material.
Using pages from the divine Bolia New Collection catalogue, I composed texts that drift around ideas of perfection, longing, and the quiet grief of unattainable cohesion. A shambolic meditation on what slips through the frame
When held to the light, each page reveals faint impressions from the reverse: Sofas wash up on shorelines. Staged interiors dissolve into the sea. A tree bursts through the window. The image shifts depending on how it is seen.
Afterwards, the works were folded up and released into circulation via a vending machine, sold for 50p.
They’re still out there somewhere.
¬ Created for Projectspace Festival 2022 at make-up e.V.
¬ Later adapted for the Special Dispensations Residency.
Photo: Heiko Pfreundt

Photo: Thomas Mayer

Photo : Piotr Pietrus


Work samples: Electric typewriter on pages of Bolia New Collection catalogue.

rent
sailboat

weeds


Photo : Piotr Pietrus

Photo: Heiko Pfreundt
A poetic disturbance in the quiet order of lifestyle catalogues. Using a malfunctioning electric typewriter which scrambles each keystroke, I respond to pages from a Scandinavian furniture catalogue with slow, hesitant lines of text. Typed directly onto the images, the poems reflect on perfection, longing, and the quiet grief of unattainable cohesion. Held to the light, each page reveals faint shadows from the reverse. Sofas on shorelines, staged interiors dissolving into the sea. A meditation on what slips through the frame.

Photo: Thomas Mayer

Photo: Thomas Mayer

Photo: Piotr Pietrus





Photo: Heiko Pfreundt
¬ Created for Projectspace Festival 2022 at make-up e.V.
¬ Later adapted for the Special Dispensations Residency