pommes I ⌈2020⌉
mirror edition
The edition is exploring the charged concept behind mirror as a tool of self-reflecion in a century of exsessive self -staging. The serie is made of porcelain which is glazed and than patinanted with silver. The silver surface stays unproteced and therefore highly reactive to the forces of every day life. As soon as you open the packaging the surface will start to react.
Pommes is a mirror whose silver patina is highly reactive to the forces of your everyday life. As soon as you open the packaging the surface will start to react. The touch of your greasy fingertips or the humidity of your unventilated home will magically transform* the patina. The silver will slowly turn gold, then ghostly grey until over time the finish may even dissolve entirely.
So treat Pommes with care, cause the best friend is an old mirror!
material:porcelain mirror
For this project I had to develop a technic to sketch with liquid porcelain. One of the amazing things about porcelain is that you can get very precise forms. However, if you want to have that very specific form, there are always a lot of pieces which end up ‘false’... The suitability about my process, is that I’m basically working from these mistakes so that I highly minimise any ‘Fehlproduktionen’ (misproductions).Of course at first it was just like weird puddles, but even these puddles had something interesting about them. I started to turn the porcelain pieces over as soon as they crystalised – otherwise the tension in between the layers of material caused cracks. In that crystallised state, porcelain is very unforgiving. Every movement, every jiggle of my hands during that step will show in the form of bumps, wrinkles and dales
form (a selection)
packaging
The concept of the packaging is founded on the idea of collectible toys/ ´HOT toys´(mostly action figures owned by adults). The main reason to consider keeping your Hot Toys in their original packaging to keep them in perfect condition is to retain a higher resale value.
The paradox of MISB ((mint in sealed box).
All mirrors of the ´pommes´edition are vacuum sealed. to protect the silver surface to react. As soon as you open the packaging the surface will start to react. The touch of your greasy fingertips or the humidity of your unventilated home will magically transform* the patina. The silver will slowly turn gold, then ghostly grey until over time the finish may even dissolve entirely.
Packaging tag designed by Max Winter
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