Let's be set for 26.10 at 16 (the length of the meeting is an hour - an hour and a half)

And in the meantime: I want you to choose something to look at (could be an object you did / an object you did not do / a series / collection / place / tool / person / theme, etc.), write everything that comes to mind in its context, and formulate 30 questions about it (possibly more ..).

Okay?

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• First and foremost, creating a closed world, invisible, a rich world with its own rules and contexts. Covert but at the same time accessible and inviting the curious. A whole world waiting for the curious eye.

• The gap between outside and inside.

• The intimacy that the box-format allows, and even binds, with the viewer.

• The ability to produce depth, multiplicity of layers and contexts.

• The magic of discovering a hidden world.

• In my opinion, the "box" tells, or offers the possibility of a solution to a problem that often preoccupies me. The gap between the object and its packaging. There is a disconnect between the creation process of an object / piece of jewelry and the final product that reaches the customer. Even before the client, the presentation of the object is usually sterile, clean and detached, from the inner world of the creator, from the studio, from the creative process, from the story. Between my mental and physical closeness as a creator to an object, and the object that is poured and detached from me, a new life cycle emerges.

• Our actions, our creation, are sketching, mapping, marking, creating shells around nothingness. Which is the great, the infinite, the absolute thing. The suitcase as a format recognizes this, temporarily, as a capsule sent into into the void.

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The questions:

• Is this a relevant format today?

• Is this a format relevant to my work?

• Does a creation/ object have to stand on its own?

• Does a creation / object "benefit" when presented in context?

• Is there value in the "story" of an object?

• Is a "box" a way to display an object, or is it a summary of a process?

• Does such a box format open up the mind, expand, and enrich the work?

• Does such a format of a box close, limiting thought, and creation?

• Does this format indicate a compulsive desire for control?

• Is the box a modest or megalomaniacal format?

• How do I create boxes?

• How to present a work correctly?

• How to present a piece of jewelry?

• How to properly pack a piece of jewelry?

• Is it possible to expand the format, to make it everyday?

• Is the object, and its creative process, two separate stories?

• What would I put in the box?

• What will my box look like?

• Is a box the right way (for me) to reveal the box I created for my self?

• Why did I create a closed world to operate in?

• What is the attraction to the limitations, to the closures, to the creation of an autarky world in which I live and create?

• Why create a closed box?

• How do you create curiosity, how do you invite in?

• Why do I want to present, to invite into my world?

• How do you create the intimacy of a viewer and an object?

• What is the correct format for today?

• Did the format of a suitcase chosen by Duchamp stem from the period in which he created it, between the wars, when a sense of disaster was approaching?

• Is Instagram a kind of suitcase - a box? And why do I feel rejected by Instagram?

• What defines a "box" as such?

• What else can I ask for a box?