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(Ticking of clocks)

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(Sounds of music box)

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It appeals very much
to the dream world, to recollection.

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And it could also somehow
stimulate the imagination --

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in a very powerful way.

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And I in reality, it is perhaps
a desire to create pictures --

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about stillness and presence.

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(Sounds of )

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The miniature is the refuge of the great.

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The quality of miniatures
or small things is in reality,

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the concentration of information.

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The sharper the diamond is ground
the more beautiful the gem looks

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and it is in the fact the processing
of three-dimensional forms

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that increases their value

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There is a figure so small

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that he can split a dust particle
with his forehead

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and step through it with his whole body.

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So, that's pretty small right?

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(Sounds of music box)

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In a way the artist works with remnants,
society's remnants

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this is always the area with potential

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I am a thing finder and its so extreme
that every time I ...

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Some shoes are so badly made
that they lose their labels.

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A kind of red thing under the shoe,
in the sole

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I have been finding them for ten years.
Each time, I pick up one like that.

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Because I use the as stairs.

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When I have enough, I use them as steps.

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So suddenly the world is incredibly large
with regard to materials.

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It's all about ideas.

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The premise right from the start has been

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to collect items from the world around
that are already manufactured.

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And take them and put them
into my own contexts

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and use them on the miniature level.

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It "mimes" something else,
that you don't see at first,

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but which has it's origin
in a completely different function.

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But this kind of disappears. 
It is dissolved.

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And of course there are also things
that already have an age --

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a certain ambiance that matches
this poetic universe,

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because I aim to generate images

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that may encourage you
to linger a while in them

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and materials that have a certain age
radiate a restraint --

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and a value that I feel is poetic.

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(Sounds of music box)

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We are very stimulated.

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I think we're living in what's called
"the great social epoch".

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We exchange a lot.

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The downside is perhaps
that things don't have time to mature.

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We are very quick to take action
in all kinds of context.

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But art is a space reserved
for a certain spontaneity.

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A place where you don't have answers
and don't need to produce.

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You go back to just being.

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As they say, we are
"human doings" or "human beings"

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I feel attracted to the idea
of just being allowed to be.

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I am interested in presence.

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And that is perhaps found more
in stillness and reflection.

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One can speak of ...
without sounding pathetic --

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there is actually something called
"the artist's great loneliness".

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(Ticking of clocks)

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And it suits me just fine,

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that this place here dilapidated and worn.

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It seems so much more relaxed to me,

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this is definitely my oasis.

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(Ticking of clocks)