#balmond

...the informal steps in easily, a sudden twist or turn, a branching, and the unexpected happens – the edge of chance shows its face. Delight, surprise, ambiguity are typical responses; ideas clash in the informal and strange juxtapositions take place. Overlaps occur. Instead of regular, formally controlled measures, there are varying rhythms and wayward impulses. Uniformity is broken and balance is interrupted. The demand for Order! in the regimental sense is ignored: the big picture is something else.

To awaken from a stasis of mind, I work the templates – a series of provocations that animate the idea of geometry as nascent, fluid, numbered and empowered with hidden strategies. Investing the maximum potential into the minimum is the aim: if a grid is something ordered and fixed, it is also a map of the random – an ultimate scattering, without bias. In such start points, the metaphor overlaps with the concrete, the super-reality over the pragmatic. Templates are like shadow plays, movements and projections of a dimension other than the one at hand. They are faint tracks leading towards an unknown region, the design space of one's imagination.