Description

Bowl Sculpture by Parisian designer Thomas Ballouhey from his final project "Ways of Altering". With a background in Product Design from ESAD of Reims and a graduation from the prestigious Contextual Design Master Course at the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2016, Ballouhey's artistic process revolves altering different techniques and materials, implementing them with various scenarios. The result is displayed in imaginary objects from another place, showing a landscape of ornate sculptures that could have been, imagining unknown artefacts if we had decided to take an unexpected turn at one point or another in time. A landscape strangely similar to ours, or at least strangely similar to our customs.

At first impression, this bowl could be an artefact or remains from another time. The materials and tools needed to execute the piece are, on the contrary, closely related to our 21st century and what it has to offer us. Made from industrial raw material and usual commodities, the Bowl is petrified in a thick layer of Sand and PVA glue. Using a rather rudimentary technique, the objects from the series "Ways of Altering", transforms readily available materials of our modern society into abstract shapes that could have emerged from a fictional world. Inviting us to imagine a landscape of objects that could have been if our history took an unexpected turn at one point or another.

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