This here is a very basic exercise that proves how easy it is to twist meaning by the simple use of fundamental form like the cube.
The execise asks for the multiplication of a 2x2 meter cube that is allowed maximum 3 chamfers of a multiple of 50 cm. Then you must copy the now "wounded" cube six times.
Compose them and give the whole a meaning.
I chose the idea of isolation and the game of hide-and-seek - thinking of children's simple games, that for adults are an intricately different situation when played.
In the context of a battle, this game intensifies its meaning. And I thought of damaged cities like Aleppo and of what anguish and pain people who still live there and in any other such battlefields are feeling.
As many of you know, the city is now riddled with snipers and it is a completely unsafe haven. People still die every day there, even though it may not be only the snipers killing people. Improvised bombs are also an awful source of darkness. And the space created tries to resemble the horror of such a town. There are spaces you can hide and spaces where a bomb could be hidden. Spaces from which a sniper may be aiming and spaces where children are still answering to their natural instinct to play.
As we grow up excitement from war games we played when we were kids become horror stories. And that is actually the reality of more than a few million people now-a-days.
Maybe hippies weren't that stoned when they kept reapeating "Peace on earth!" a thousand times a day. It sounds like a great plan today.
