"Inventory" presents a set of three pieces built from the gathering of particular objects found in Colombian marketplaces: tree bark boxes for flower arrangements, horsehair pipe cleaners, and wooden hybrids between stools and ladders. After accumulating a significant amount of each, the objects are classified, fitted, and extended to explore the formal and structural possibilities that each one allows.
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The piece "Boxes for flower arrangements" presents a set of different-sized boxes stacked up together create a wall-like structure. Their outside is made with tree bark while the inside, intended for the flowers, is lined with a plastic bag. Based on how boxes are piled in marketplaces, two structures are built and repurposed to guard the inflated plastic bags inside.
"Pipe cleaners" presents a group of traditional Colombian horsehair bristle pipe cleaners. The arranging and tying up using horse hair filaments results in a structure that wraps around itself. This way, it refers to a particular characteristic of its fiber: memory. Unlike their industrial counterparts, horsehair bristles do not lose their shape overtime. The volume achieved in the piece is the natural volume that derives from the object, it is the way they asked to be placed. Finally, a piece of the structure is droped on the floor, to suggest its configuration can be repeated endlessly.
"Stool-ladders" consists of five similar objects that vary in size. Two were found and three assembled using cedar, walnut, and recycled wood ribbons. This piece presents a straight line that reveals the pattern used to build the sculptures: adding two steps each time. The piece transforms this traditional object into a larger scale, making it useless as a functional object while enhancing its presence in the space.
