Thom van Hoek | Radiator

Thom van Hoek, alum of finished Temporary Programme Materialisation in Art and Design (2015–2017), presents documentation from the work Radiator (2018–ongoing) on their website.

How do you visualise something that changes over time? Struck by the omnipresence of plastic in our world of today, I felt a desire to make this overabundance insightful and started saving containers, re-using them by filling them up with alginate. Alginate is a powder made of algae, which becomes a kind of jelly when mixed with water. Gradually the water evaporates out of the alginate and the form starts to change and mould. All the casts therefore have slightly different way of changing, depending on the time (duration) and the climate of their surrounding environment. Because of this dependency they become specific characters, all different from one another.

See further at: https://thomvhoek.hotglue.me/?Radiator/

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