DOMESTICATING THE UNKNOWN
U've probably never seen a Loch Ness monster yourself, but close your eyes for a sec n u can see its long tail, the neck, the number of bumps on its back. Humans are able by nature to reason about unreasonable things.
That's y the artist-designer Pauline Rip keeps saying that there is more to what we know. She makes mystery REAL at the latest edition of Dutch Design Week, w/ the expo "Riding Ghosts". 🧟♂️
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Using cryptozoological collections n the help of a statistician, she created a rational image of two cryptids: Nessie n the Yeti. For giving life to these creatures, Pauline has chosen leather n rubber.
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“I wanted to use leather to stay traditional because w/ this fantasy topic I needed to show what's real.”
Sounds about right. She completes: “also because it's about domesticating and controlling animals using the skin of the animal itself. It really emphasized this idea of the need for control.”
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Strangeness, absurdity, irrationality, mystery or even mysticality are life's different ways for Pauline Rip to understand the world.
She told us she wanted to work w/ mysterious creatures, w/ the unpredictable, monsters no one has ever proven the existence of or even taken a clear look.
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Can you imagine it? Boo.