materials study 1

    The project, which I have thematically called a study of materials, is first of all, what it carries in its title, but at the same time it is a creation inspired by the current state of mind, which I subjectively needed to define in the form of something physical. It is an object that combines welded steel, a vacuum plastic bag and fabric, or rather an unraveled and recycled climbing rope. I used it in response to a previous project from the plein air in Nová Perla, where I perceived it as a local line of possibility of the connection between man and nature, which I found also in the phase of making this study, as I was trying to make some kind of disconnection from my standardly digital practice and return to nature and myself.  

    The tapestry is made of a dismembered climbing rope, the individual parts of which, carefully intertwined, form a seemingly regular pattern. On closer examination, however, a rather chaotic structure is evident, with the individual elements relating to each other only fleetingly. The study is thus a kind of reaction or manifestation of escapism to the over-technicalised cybernetic age, where I have tried to somehow step out of my routine practice, which is primarily focused on digital media, during the time-consuming and technically demanding process of composing the fabric. The complexity and necessary slowness of the making process was thus a kind of personal manifesto for me of the necessary slowing down in today's relentlessly hectic times. The entire work is vacuum insulated in a plastic bag, which I have tightened in a steel block-shaped structure.