An overview of my most noteworthy projects
Play-Bombing
I did material-based research on the Play-Dough. Through experimentation, questioning and reflection, this eventually lead to a new use for the material. This eventually lead to the Play-Bomb Movement.
Concept:
I chose the material playdough because it fascinated me. The doughy texture, the bright colours, the nostalgia. I first started experimenting with the material by heating it under different heat sources, diluting it in water, combining it with other ingredients. After testing out the material, I started making my own playdough. Due to the war in Ukraine that had just started by the time I was doing this project, the ingredients that I needed were out of stock, so I had to experiment with making my dough using different materials. This turned out to be harder than I initially thought. But after some trial and error, I was eventually able to achieve the same result.
While researching my new materials, I found out that they were all bio-degradable and that sparked my interest. I found out that you could put this selfmade playdough out and about and it will just dissolve in time without harming nature. I started going further with this and saw beauty in the fact that things can be temporary. With this idea, I came up with the play-bomb movement. Which is inspired by the yarn-bomb movement. This was a trend in mainly big in the begining of the 2010’s, where everyone was putting knitted items in the wild. Around trees, streetpoles, traffic lights, etc.
With play-bombing this meant making playdough, creating artworks with this playdough and putting them into nature. Without harming or appropriating it.
The intention of the movement is to brighten the outside world and spark it with a little bit of joy.