When 2 Become 1.
The morning after Steffy sent me an email requesting an Ode, as a wedding gift for her husband to be, I woke up with the song ‘When 2 Become 1’ from the Spice Girls stuck in my head.
It got me thinking of what marriage is and I came to the conclusion that it’s two separate lives blending together.
So I came up with the idea to make a book (as she is a writer) and slides (slices) of life, 11 of his and 11 of hers, together 22.
They can place two on top of each other, creating a double exposure effect. Thus combining their lives and creating new history, with memories.
In the front of the object, there are two brass story lines, coming out of Pilot Fineliner pens, which stand for their 2 separate lives, running through the layers of time, ending up together.
The object is made out of:
Newspapers from the day they where born, as thats where their stories started.
Black taurus marble as a base, because it looks like the view of the earth from the moon and back, resembling their love.
Catalpa tree. This tree has twofold flowers (2 become 1), with a heart shaped base. This is wood from a tree that grew in Amsterdam. Trees exist from layers of time, just like the earth. So their memories are engraved in the heart of the earth of Amsterdam and they can take it with them where ever they go.
Aluminum.
Brass, giving the story an extra golden lining.
Fun Fact: in all the calculations of every element I played into the title, using lots of “ones”, “twos” or multiplications of. So the slides for instance are 11 by 22 cm’s.
Fun Fact 2: we specifically chose these two pages, to be shown on top, as theres fireworks (symbolizing them), fashion (as she loves fashion) and finance (as he is a stock broker).
44 x 44 x 99 cm
