‘Kinderfresser’
Why toys? Toys are energetic and relate to the imaginative world. A toy transformed into another object immediately engages and disarms the viewer so they will move in close, then it is too late. The piece has engaged them and will disturb them.
In creating with toys I bridge a gap in time, span the adult back to the childhood. The childhood I refer to is that time when the world is of a rational order that allows the natural order of the irrational. Childhood is the world of human consciousness when the brain is still developing and the mind cannot yet grasp certain concepts, and so order is made in a most peculiar manner.
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