Designing is a bit like putting together a house, you shouldn't start from the door, but I usually do. And on top of everything, I mainly use doors to run away.
From above, two police are looking for a fugitive suspect: there is an open door at the very bottom of the frame, and there is a rope hanging out from it. At the bottom of the rope there is me. I love the emptiness and cinematic quality of this piece of work. The white and red color scheme I chose it is probably derived from the summerhouses I saw in a trip to Sweden early this year. I also like the gray staircase connecting the narrative between the upper and the bottom part of the frame. I photographed the frame separately from the man hanging onto the rope because I didn't want to lose detail of the frame in itself. Creating the door corridor was the most demanding part of the process in the realization of this piece. It involved drilling, sandpapering and painting, but I loved the idea of having a real rope passing through a real corridor connecting the exterior part of the frame with the interior one. This very long title is emblematic of a recurring theme in my design practice: designing around obstacles, and possibly building design strategies that are mainly aimed to grant my escape from the problem rather than the resolution of it. I panic, I build doors, I slam them and run away.
hanging on a rope