This work is about the beauty of objects that have been altered by the human hand in an unconscious way, here represented by a beam. The wear and tear tells a story of where the object has been and what it has experienced in an indirect manner. To highlight this deterioration, a contrasting element has been placed opposite to the beam; a deliberately stylized machine. This creates a kind of symbiosis between the controlled and the uncontrolled, the synthetical and the natural.

A rotation combined with a tilting movement allows the viewer to literally observe the beam from all angles. By enabling spectators to view the beam from multiple perspectives, the work gains both a literal and figurative broader perspective.

This object holds a nostalgic layer combined with a freely interpretable narrative. The unanswered questions embedded in this story fascinate me, it feels like a mystery of which you don’t want to know the answer.

Footage by Jasper Timmermans