Jesper O.T. Andersson
SET/SÄTT, 2020
SET / SÄTT is a “plastic” sculpture, malleable and subject to its surroundings. It consists of a collection of components with the same prerequisites, but whose combination is continually restructured in relation to its environment. Materially the work consists of wooden sticks with accompanying joints that lock into each other by using tension. The method is inspired by practices from shipbuilding, woodworking, game design and the constructivist movement with the ambition to create a tool. An instrument that allows the user to quickly and with ease draw up lines within a space, like a three dimensional form of sketching. Whenever SET/SÄTT is shown, a new series of sculptures are constructed, reconstructed and deconstructed.
In the early stages of the project I remember thinking that rather than creating a sculpture, I would focus on developing a design that would more or less be used as a toy or a tool. A device that would in itself not be the artwork, but the tool for which ideas could be stimulated into existence by the user. The exciting thing about setting out to create an instrument is the fact that you do not know what it might used for.
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