Nuts and Bolts
Materials: Inkprint on Card
Dimensions: 90 x 110cm (without frame)
This piece is based on an experimental linocut ink print of the silhouette of a greenhouse.
I recognised the squared nature of this particular greenhouse; there were no organic shapes to be found. Rectangles are repeated in most modern buildings nowadays, with the building itself standing for structure, growth and technological advancement. The shape of the square summarises the unstoppable thrive for growth, with all its rational and logical reasoning attached to it.
On the other hand life itself is supposed to be represented by a circle, the most organic shape possible. Yet if life is organic, why are most modern values represented by and housed by the square? Where did we stop acting naturally and started to focus on our respective profit margin?
The Ink print is arranged much like a lava lamp: Multilayered square structures are evaporating into circles, while other circles sink back into the structure of the squared greenhouse. There is an interaction between square and circle, yet it remains to be answered whether it is evaporation or condensation that is prevailing.
The title of this piece is derived from whatever is keeping modern society functioning the way it does, be it squares or circles: The Nuts & Bolts of this world.