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In “Marzona, Daniel. (2004). Minimal Art. Köln: Taschen” one can read a few thought-evoking quotes from Carl Andre (amongst more, of course…). I would like to archive these here as points of reference:

One is:

“A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.”

Another:

“Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us.”

Within architecture and technologies there are those (sub-)objects that become the pariah of their surrounding structure. We, the inhabitants, the ab[sent]users of these larger structures deny their existence, ignore their minute and perhaps fragile structure and dismiss their state.

During guerrilla-styled collection sessions I bring these together into forced-art (as opposed to forced-labor amongst individuals of the human species).

It is not a rescue mission though neither a perversion. It is not a hero-seeking mission or the creation of the next commercialized limelight-lid pop star. The objects remain anonymous and even become more alienated from their functionality within their larger environment. They are ripped from their context and zoomed into the oddest of settings, that of the photograph. They are ripped of their technological or architectural functionality; are they naked?

Here is one:

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Some captures accentuate habitat errors, these blemishes we wish to avoid, to hide, to shun, and to point out with disdain. Their faultiness become the idiosyncratic signature of the lived space. Their hyper-focus brings them to the status of non-art:

All these and more form The Andre Orphanphorn Series; the pornography of the artificial, the cousins of the photograph; the family members of dead space.

Some architectural orphans are small others are large but only occasionally stripped from their veiling enclosures:

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