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(Archive) Untitled_23

This project was part of DDW 2023

Untitled_23 is about vulnerability, making, the safety of home and about being a child. This work was created as a graduation project at the Spatial Design Department of the Utrecht University of the Arts.

Fragile

Puck's creativity has been fragile for as long as she can remember. While shaping her graduation project, she ran into this. She had high expectations, and they had to be pursued. She hindered herself, as she did before. She stopped drawing as a little girl because it wasn't perfect enough, and she held herself back for fear of doing the wrong thing. For Puck, home was the place where everything was okay, where there was no right or wrong and where she could do whatever she wanted. Especially in her own room, which she was always allowed to decorate herself.

In fact, this has always remained so, even now that she no longer lives at home with her parents, but in a small student room. This room is her own safe place, full of all the weird things that belong to her. As a showpiece, there is a cabinet in that room, full of things. A cabinet of curiosities, wunderkammer, museum of oddities or however you want to describe it. All of these items she obtained in a different way, and they all have their own story. They fit together because they fit Puck. This closet is very dear to her; no one is really allowed to touch it.

Tactile cabinet

Puck recreated this cabinet as a spatial self-portrait. The visitor comes to visit Puck at home, where everything is allowed and there are no rules. The cabinet is made entirely of latex, looks fragile but is tactile. The visitor can touch the cabinet, put things in a different place. You can come and play with Puck, be a child again.