Bansri Thakkar
What Ifs & Why Nots
Toys with anti-perfection
Interrogates and subverts
Expectations of
What making is and
What aesthetics are.
Examines and deconstructs
Structures at play
To elevate the whimsical
The impulsive, the intuitive.
Combines fragments into
An unexpected whole
Reexamining the processes
We often gloss over.
Experiments with
Modes of experimentation
Defying strategy, control
And structure.
Observes and allows
The relationship between
The eye, the hand and the material
To be a part in the design process.
Informed by my reality
And how I situate myself
In a dominant western culture
Looks closely at how I make
Publication
The book is a collection of experiments and reflections that take the form of an interactive object to be revealed from the box-like structure. The book itself is organised in a non-linear way that allows for four natural starting points. There is no beginning and no end, just the in-betweens. The structure of the book, the layout and typography searchingly dance between comfort and discomfort, method and madness, perfection and imperfection.
Installation
