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WHY I MAKE

I make because I feel happy

I make because it feels natural

I make because I want to create

I make because I get excited

I make to challenge myself

I make to evolve

I make because I learn

I make to communicate

I make to experiment

I make to control

I make to show my fantasies

I make to show my fascinations

I make to explore the unexpected

When I make I get the best feeling I can get. I feel a need to make, it is something naturally I have in my brain. The way that I've got a sort of sense for shapes, colors and materials. I don't know exactly what sort of sense it is. I think other makers know what I'm talking about. The heart for creating it's just there and when I'm making that heart is getting encouraged. I feel so pleased when I'm thinking about something and my hands create my thoughts. It is a way to express myself, to show my emotions. Sometimes it is a good way to clear my head. When I made an object or product, I get so satisfied with all the work I've put in a project and seeing the results afterward. It feels even more satisfying when other people react on my project. That someone has questions or thoughts about my work. When that happens I feel connected.

I make because I want to challenge myself. I want to improve myself in every way I can.Because I challenge myself I learn every day, I know more about techniques, skills, experiments and about myself. I know that I will never feel bored and that I will never stop learning. I want to develop, It's also my goal to evolve my brain my skills and me as a person as much as I can.

I make because I have so many fantasies, I see figures in clouds, in stains, in scrawls. I know a lot of creative brains and especially kids have this gift. I found out that this is a psychic phenomenon called: pareidolia The reason for this phenomenon is probably that the brains need to make connections between different elements, even if they actually don't exist. When I experiment with materials this pareidolia thing in my brain gets really stimulated. I get so excited when I just do something and I turns out in something I've never thought about.

The uncontrolled is a fascination, especially trying to find out how you can control the uncontrolled. To understand why a drop of ink is not the same on each piece of paper. Why does is go like this? How can I change it? Can I control it? Can I add other liquids to make a different effect? Maybe there is another way to not just drop the ink on the paper. The way things go always inspired me, the way colors fade out the way colors mix. How dominoes fall down, how water is moving. How the wax in a lava lamp moves?

Don’t you think that the unknown is way more exciting than the stuff we already know? It’s much more fun to be surprised by your own inventions. To show the unexpected, to experiment with something you don’t know yet. When I make the process it is just as important as the final object. That’s because the process is the understanding of the unexpected.

For my artefact, I want to make my personal flag. Why a flag? Well, the flag is a way to communicate, you can show other people where you stand for, what your statement is, to show you message to others. To show the unexpected/uncontrolled I want to draw with something that is temporary. I was thinking to use bubbles because for a few seconds you have something visible and the second moment it disappears. So how can I (a sort of) control this bubble, I was thinking of coloring it. I think this will be interesting because when the bubble disappears it is still visible but in a different way. I’m going to experiment with different recipes for soap, different colors (paint, ink, pigments) and surfaces (paper/textile) to blow the bubbles on. I’m also going to find out what works the best, blow one big bubble or blow a lot of bubbles, maybe a different way to get bubbles. The end result of my experiments will become my personal flag. The goal and also the statement: explore the unexpected.

FINAL ARTEFACT

So I first tried to blow bubbles I expected to see a splash of color, but I only get tiny spots... (picture 1) So I tried of blowing one big bubble for a bigger splash, but also that didn't work. On picture 2 I tested if there was enough paint in the soap (maybe that's why the bubbles didn't work) as you see.. there was enough color in the soap.

Time for the next idea, as a child I played every summer with blowing bubbles I remember I made bubbles with bottles. I cut the bottom of the bottle and added a sock. When I dipped the sock in the soap and blew on it I had a long chain of bubbles. So I tried this technique on a piece of paper and it worked really well! I did a lot of experiments on different kinds of paper. On the paper, you can really see the bubbles. When I used the soap with acrylic paint, you can see a structure when I use soap with ink it becomes more transparent. The smooth paper doesn't work quite well, the more rough paper works really well.

After doing experiments with the paper I also did some tests with textile. On textile it turned out really different, the bubbles turn into stains and becoming a bit hazy. When I used different colors together it turned out really beautiful. I tested bubble blowing on al kinds of textile. The transparent fabric turns out the best I think because haziness gets more value and the fading of the colors gets more accentuated.

FINAL PIECE >>>

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