MALENGE

My form and material study deals with the forms and structures of pumpkins;in particular with the guiding questions:

How can the forms and concise surface structures best be transferred?

What role does the material of the form play?

How do similar objects appear in different transparencies and materialities?

How does the color affect the form language, effect and structure?

The small series consists of 12 objects. These can be combined in small groups and staged with moving, punctual and direct lighting, to emphasize the shadow cast by the structure. Hardly any other vegetable is so stereotypically loaded and inextricably linked with a sea- son, as the pumpkin with the autumn.Yet there is so much more potential, color and shape diversity in this vegetable.

MALENGE Is not only the Swahili name for pumkin, it also recalls the French word: Melan- ge, which means as much as mixture.Similar to the coffee drink, it is about a combination of transparent and opaque media.

By translating pumpkin shape and structure into more durable materials,the moment is conserved. The stage of the fruit of a seed plant is a snapshot of the climax of the life cycle & in the same time a symbol of transience.