2024

The suspended aquarium is called

“Up In The Air”

2024
engraved float glass, silicone, pigment, water, metal string, bait, rotating motor
40cm x 25cm x 60cm

and is lightly filled with murky pink water, gently rocking back and forth, pulled by a fishing string driven by a turning motor attached to a built wall. I tried to lure the viewer around the corner. The aquarium, up in the air, has images engraved into the glass walls of a crying baby opposite to a yawing girl, and a swimming dog opposite to a performing dolphin. I made it rock so it would try to calm these images down, making the pink murky water move satisfyingly.

“Bonanza or also known as Letting Old Air Out”
Graduation Show 2024 @rietveldacademie
glass, sponges, beauty blenders, plastic, wax, metal, fired clay, self drying clay, aquarium rocks, water filters, old aquariums, magnetic stirrers, air-gun pellets, rotation motors, crepe paper, pigments, nail polish 300cm x 200cm x 400cm

This Installation is based on a `whalefall ́ that feeds the bottom of the ocean. One whale can sustain life for 200 years. Inspired by this I wanted to create an ecology of disregarded stuff. In the center, I placed a collapsed aquarium. I found it on Marktplaats; the seller told me it had housed a single goldfish for 10 years. She asked what fish I would get, and I said I wouldn’t use it for domestication but for art. She seemed a bit disappointed.