Focus
People may think of me as a busy person, but I often find myself quite calm compared to how my thoughts work. I often focus on things that others do not see and often forget to look at the obvious, I see things that others do not see, and I hear things that others do not hear. Everyone hears and sees the same thing, but others don't focus on things that are not important to them and they subconsciously filter those things.
I don't know any better that I'm over-stimulated by everything around me and I don't mind it at all.
But sometimes I wish others could see and hear the same thing if I want to indicate something.
My focus is often chaotic and I often get more, I'm not used differently and I can see and hear the beauty in the unseen.
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For the process i wanted something that has to do with the head, so i thought about a helmet of some sort. I wanted elements of me in the helmet not thinking of autism or the spectrum the focus is on me not the generalization and of course the focus part visualization and hearing. With these pillars I started.
I myself a big on math and geometry so the shape is that of a dodecahedron. I’m also doing new things so i wanted to learn in the process something new, working with a lot of wood i wanted to start working with metal.
To show the visuals, I knew it wouldn’t be the exact same so i went for a more abstract approach, showing the feeling of the zooming in, and obscuring the surroundings. So magnification was the solution. Working with Fresnel plate.
For the audio part I would have to make an AI that hears what I focus on, so because is couldn’t do it with the time I had, I made it more simplistic. I listened to a recording of the city and edited the audio in a way how I would hear it.
With all of that it was just as simple as putting it together. Designing first the helmet design and making it safe to use for people to put on.
Heart Prosthetics
This prosthesis is a prototype for a cosmetic surgical modification to the heart.
The idea came from my experience. I notice that I am always there for others and that some can take advantage of it, this makes me vulnerable and I wanted to translate this into a literal object
For this project, I learned to work with the grim (applying make-up, making silicone prostheses, making plaster). The process was more about learning Grim because that was the biggest part and the process is the basics of applying those techniques. Working with mold making, make-up and 3d printing.
The design needed to be simple, like the idea. Showing a prosthetic surgery with a heart outside the body with a little protection.
Obelisk Behouw(d)en
This obelisk stands for the people I gained and lost in my life.
The obelisk grows as it moves forwards through the desert when gaining someone and breaks off pieces when I lose someone. The pieces that break off are not lost yet and memories keep them above the sand to look back at as they slowly fade away in time.
Goblet
In the time I worked for Stap I was given the assignment to make a goblet for the debate tournament, my and my fellow interns competed against each other to give his goblet to the winners of the debate tournament.
We where free to make whatever we wanted, so I made my design based on what the debate tournament felt to me when I competed last year. For me it felt like a fight whit the mouth, I've seen how hard it can get and I
wanted to show that.
So I made my design on mouths fighting each other.
