process

I wanted dive deeper into my research by reading and going to museums however I felt restless and felt that I needed to get going with my making as this could also help me research, and ultimately would aid me in finding a methodology. Keeping my research and inspirations in mind I went to the ceramic station and began my process. I brought my 'Bo Bedre' magazines with me from 1987 and looked for shapes and interior items that spoke to the nostalgic lens I have. I then emulated my findings into a sculpture and thought about experimenting with glazes later that would give a finish similar to that feeling.

I think this method is a first step into a methodology and also to see what kind of result can come out of my fascination for retro design. It also explores whether this is something that I would want to go more into... like is this where my link with nostalgia lies? the fascination with retro design. what feeling does it give? (maybe curiosity??) but I feel like when I flick through these magazines I feel like what it was like to live back then and maybe that's something I aspire to and want to translate this feeling of being somewhere else and experiencing anemoia for a time that you weren't in... can my sculptures achieve this? perhaps thats what I'm exploring at the moment

The idea behind this sculpture was sparked by looking again in Bo Bedre and remembering and reminiscing about these white appliances that I have grown up with seeing in use by my parents and also a lot in my grandparents house one that really struck a chord with me when I was browsing the magazine was this egg cooker which I found fascinating and a bit useless back then but I guess eggs were really important to them and they didn't wanna mess them up.
so I wanted to make little sculpture that reminded me of this iconic device.

This sculpture and shape is based on my fascination for Verner Panton the otherworldly feeling that his designs bring similar to those of Ron Nagel that he has in his sculptures.
Other than he is also a trail blazer in the chair making scene, in Denmark when he was designing he was considered very unorthodox, a risk taker and a 'pauseklovn'.
He had to work internationally as his work didn't fall into the polished works of the time, he worked with Vitra in switzerland. I admire the out of the box thinking and the shapes and colours he created these are things that can inspire a certain feeling and aesthetic in my own work.
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/kultur/historie/farverig-dansk-designer-maatte-til-udlandet-faa-succes

When I was around 8 years old I got really into looking through design books, especially my chair book I became acquainted with all the Danish design classics such as this Arne Jacobsen chair called Swan.
We always had the Finnish brand Italla in our home and the Nordic design within in Alvar Altos designs also follow this organic nature like sensibility. I therefore combined the two because I felt that they were both existing with the same sensibility

Encapsulate what nostalgia feels like, smell?, sound?, whats the textures and colours of this?

Personal, I think at the moment to figure out what it means to me in order to then explain the process of discovering ones nostalgia and what that journey can provide in my case it provides a sense of intrigue, comfort, and visual inspiration.

DESIGN- functional design that are made as sculptures make them not functional but the function is to evoke nostalgia, chairs in my book are not necessarily something I could physically have but I would dream about them and by making a non functional sculpture emulates this notion.

Amagerhylde, I think I have found a way to display my works. on or in a shelving system... or a cabinet type of thing because that where I would put trinkets. The size of my sculptures really lend themselves to that kind of display.

En Amagerhylde er trekantet system af mindre hylder som er kortest foroven og bliver længere nedefter bruges typisk til nips.[1]

Amagerhylden var kendt og udbredt i store dele af Europa i 1700- og 1800-tallet. Og derfor hed den tidligere heller ikke en amagerhylde, men en pyramide eller en pyramidehylde. Det folkekære navn amagerhylden kom først til senere. Det er sandsynligt, at det var maleren Julius Exners billede Besøg hos bedstefader, hvor man kan se hylden på væggen hos en af Amagerbønderne, der gav den sit nu udbredte danske navn.[2]

Instead of putting my work and explanation of it into a paper based publication I want to have my work, which is based on inspiration from interior and furniture design to be in dialog with something that is a part of that. That being a curtain at the moment but I feel like other elements are needed to pull everything together.