Documentary snapshots

Pure poetry can also come about in everyday life, through the surprising combination of objects and materials. Many examples of that can be found in his book Haphazard: the beam above the entrance to a house, which serves as the improvised storage place for a toothbrush; a shoe attached, like a paddle, to a cane; or a seatless wooden chair, whose frame wrapped in pink dress material brings to mind a life buoy. No matter how much the objects and situations may indeed speak to the imagination, any artistic intention is foreign to them. If these amazing hodge-podges of materials and forms have an aesthetic appeal, then it is the inadvertent side effect of an intervention aimed at practical use.