Spätzle is in your Neighbourhood
  • Spätzle is in your Neighbourhood
  • In 2004, I made 20 blank toys and sent them to artists around the world. They brought their toy to life and then sent it back to me for photography. I then decided where to send the toy for another remaking...and the process continued.

    The project was called Neighbourhood and finally resulted in a cosy felt covered book full of sequences of sewn, painted on, dismembered, reconstructed toys.

    Spätzle is one of my toys from the project - initially inspired by the German egg noodles spätzle. He was made by knotting thousands of pieces of wool onto his body.

    He doesn't like to talk much because when he does his spätzle hair gets in his mouth and he eats it. It can be dangerous to eat too much of yourself.

    Spätzle was subsquently remade by Friends with you and Shynola. He emerged from the process with a red dougal nose and a dark streak.

    He's all the better for it, I must say. Which, afterall, is the joy of remixing.
     
  • This Picture
    Spätzle (detail)
  • Project
    Neighbourhood
  • Medium
    Hand-made Toy
  • Year
    2004
Spätzle Front
  • This Picture
    Spätzle from the front
  • Project
    Neighbourhood
  • Medium
    Hand-made Toy
  • Year
    2004
Spätzle Back
  • This Picture
    Spätzle from the back
  • Project
    Neighbourhood
  • Medium
    Hand-made Toy
  • Year
    2004
Neighbourhood Book
  • This Picture
    The Neighbourhood Book
    open at the final remix
    by Shynola
  • Project
    Neighbourhood
  • Year
    2006
Sozi and the seasons
Canapy
Bedroom wall
The Boys
Cozmas
Bedroom Corner