Peter Meijer
My aim is to invent simple and beautiful shapes based on a explicit
thought. My sculptures are answers to questions, questions like: What
happens if ?, How many ways are there to ?, Is it possible to ? and so
on. The sculptures are based on formal conditions which are inherent
to the design. In each design I try to use a minimum number of lines
to get the right shape, while each curved line has to be as simple as
possible. I like to deviate from the straight line, but not too
much.
Mostly I work in wood.
I mainly use the bandsaw machine in order to create my work.
The white surface has properties of the Möbius strip.
Characteristics:
Regular form (surface exist of straight lines).
Surface of Möbius strip became a body.
The form of the inside is the form of the outside.
(with a twist , what becomes understandable by manipulating the
beam before).
Walking along the surface goed as follows:
1) Start at the the bottom with position rightup and go to the
left.
2) When passing the border you go from urricht to upside down.
3) By arriving at the bottom again the position is still upside
down.
4) After completing the second loop the position is again upright.
On the bean is drawed the cutting line that is the border between
red and yellow.
The sculpture exists of two separate vertical mirrored halves,
what lets manipulated the form, because there are two posible
variants.
The model is made of wooden plates (MDF).
The inner surface is like a Möbius strip in a stair-like form.
The whole sculpture can be seen as a 3D Möbius strip.
I will give an textual explanation for the visitors (on A5
format).