[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":341},["ShallowReactive",2],{"pieces-list-en":3},[4,45,75,105,134,163,194,227,255,282,312],{"id":5,"title":6,"body":7,"description":18,"dimensions":19,"extension":20,"images":21,"materials":23,"meta":31,"navigation":32,"path":33,"seo":34,"shadowColor":35,"shadowShape":36,"stem":37,"techniques":38,"weight":42,"year":43,"__hash__":44},"pieces\u002Fen\u002Fpieces\u002Fbutterflies.md","Butterflies",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":14},"minimark",[10],[11,12,13],"p",{},"Butterflies, through and through. The background is a swarm of nearly a hundred colourful plastic butterflies, arranged\nlike a rainbow and set on green artificial turf. In front of it floats the airplane, its very shape recalling a\nbutterfly. Yet against all that loud colour it deliberately holds back, kept entirely in black, wrapped from thick and\nthin nylon cords and black cables around a soldered wire frame, with only a few accents of thick and fine gold wire. The\neffect is almost noble, a calm and elegant counterpoint to the colourful swarm behind it.",{"title":15,"searchDepth":16,"depth":16,"links":17},"",2,[],"A black-and-gold airplane in butterfly form against a rainbow of nearly a hundred colourful butterflies.","40 × 40 cm","md",[22],"\u002Fimages\u002Fsample\u002Fbutterfly.png",[24,25,26,27,28,29,30],"Plastic butterflies","Artificial turf","Wire","Nylon cord (thick & thin)","Black cables","Gold wire (thick & fine)","Brass rods",{},true,"\u002Fen\u002Fpieces\u002Fbutterflies",{"title":6,"description":18},"#F1CCD7","butterflies","en\u002Fpieces\u002Fbutterflies",[39,40,41],"Soldered & glued wire frame","Wrapping in nylon cord & cables","Arranging butterflies","1.5 kg","2026","x7MO-ztpzP-dA17LSawi4tfd4PAk1XNfy47VDXGDkPk",{"id":46,"title":47,"body":48,"description":55,"dimensions":19,"extension":20,"images":56,"materials":58,"meta":63,"navigation":32,"path":64,"seo":65,"shadowColor":66,"shadowShape":67,"stem":68,"techniques":69,"weight":73,"year":43,"__hash__":74},"pieces\u002Fen\u002Fpieces\u002Fclouds.md","Clouds",{"type":8,"value":49,"toc":53},[50],[11,51,52],{},"A folded paper airplane, but knitted: soft white fluffy wool sitting where crisp paper should be. Beneath it floats a\ncloud: dark and light blue felt stacked layer on layer. The bubble shape was modeled in 3D on the computer first, then\nsliced into contours to make the cutting templates, every layer cut out by hand and rebuilt one on top of the next. A\npaper plane and a cloud belong to the same light, drifting world; here that lightness is rendered in something you could\nreach out and hold.",{"title":15,"searchDepth":16,"depth":16,"links":54},[],"A knitted white paper airplane resting on a cloud of stacked blue felt layers.",[57],"\u002Fimages\u002Fsample\u002Fclouds.png",[59,60,61,62],"Felt (dark & light blue)","White wool yarn","Wooden base","Wooden frame",{},"\u002Fen\u002Fpieces\u002Fclouds",{"title":47,"description":55},"#C7DAE9","bubbles","en\u002Fpieces\u002Fclouds",[70,71,72],"3D modeling","Layered felt cutting","Knitting","1.4 kg","ApMDypmCRWyQsO0OkOOk6_SBn5pMpMUpvRELhi_FX9k",{"id":76,"title":77,"body":78,"description":85,"dimensions":19,"extension":20,"images":86,"materials":88,"meta":93,"navigation":32,"path":94,"seo":95,"shadowColor":96,"shadowShape":97,"stem":98,"techniques":99,"weight":103,"year":43,"__hash__":104},"pieces\u002Fen\u002Fpieces\u002Fgirl-with-airplane.md","Girl with Airplane",{"type":8,"value":79,"toc":83},[80],[11,81,82],{},"The inspiration is hard to miss: the street art of Banksy and his world-famous girl with the red balloon. Here the\nballoon is a paper airplane. The background is hand-cast concrete, raw and urban, and on it, stencilled with a spray\ncan, the little girl, caught in the moment she lets the airplane go. The airplane is folded from thick red cardboard and\nglows against the grey ground. What carries the piece is the contrast: the hard, heavy world of concrete against the\nlightness of a single red airplane about to fly away.",{"title":15,"searchDepth":16,"depth":16,"links":84},[],"A stencilled girl letting go of a red paper airplane, sprayed onto hand-cast concrete.",[87],"\u002Fimages\u002Fsample\u002Fgirl-red.png",[89,90,91,92],"Concrete (hand-cast)","Cardboard","Spray paint","Stencil",{},"\u002Fen\u002Fpieces\u002Fgirl-with-airplane",{"title":77,"description":85},"#DBCFB8","slate","en\u002Fpieces\u002Fgirl-with-airplane",[100,101,102],"Concrete casting","Stencil art \u002F spraying","Paper folding","approx. 2.5 kg","qxxKReedN2FPzT4tHIAiuQCZmdJhCnAv0QzSBUJi8Q8",{"id":106,"title":107,"body":108,"description":115,"dimensions":19,"extension":20,"images":116,"materials":118,"meta":123,"navigation":32,"path":124,"seo":125,"shadowColor":66,"shadowShape":126,"stem":127,"techniques":128,"weight":132,"year":43,"__hash__":133},"pieces\u002Fen\u002Fpieces\u002Firidescent.md","3D-Vision",{"type":8,"value":109,"toc":113},[110],[11,111,112],{},"The theme is the 3D illusion. The background is laid from nearly two thousand small dice that form an image through\ntheir pip counts alone: an eye. That eye looks straight through the airplane, made of red and blue plastic film like the\nlenses of a pair of 3D glasses. There are in fact two airplanes, one red, one blue, offset by a few centimetres, so that\ntogether they open up spatial depth. To let the film stretch cleanly over the frame, it is sewn on by hand with a\nthousand fine needle pricks. Look closely and you see double, and suddenly three-dimensional.",{"title":15,"searchDepth":16,"depth":16,"links":114},[],"An eye made of nearly two thousand dice looks through an airplane of red-and-blue film, a play on 3D illusion.",[117],"\u002Fimages\u002Fsample\u002Feyes.png",[119,120,121,122],"Dice","Red & blue plastic film","Sewing thread","Wire frame",{},"\u002Fen\u002Fpieces\u002Firidescent",{"title":107,"description":115},"mosaic","en\u002Fpieces\u002Firidescent",[129,130,131],"Dice mosaic (by pip count)","Film airplane","Sewing film to the frame","approx. 1.5 kg","PLe3fjZLXs587mxJtekutsNmpRJoAUyRvVZbEB9VADs",{"id":135,"title":136,"body":137,"description":144,"dimensions":19,"extension":20,"images":145,"materials":147,"meta":153,"navigation":32,"path":154,"seo":155,"shadowColor":66,"shadowShape":126,"stem":156,"techniques":157,"weight":161,"year":43,"__hash__":162},"pieces\u002Fen\u002Fpieces\u002Fraft.md","Raft",{"type":8,"value":138,"toc":142},[139],[11,140,141],{},"An airplane that has become a raft. Built from bamboo skewers and lashed together with white yarn, it recalls a small\nraft on the open sea. The water beneath takes up the theme and turns sculptural: a three-dimensional wave pattern shaped\nfrom styrofoam and plaster, covered with thousands of small glass mosaic stones. Their arrangement emphasises the waves\neven more, with bright white foam on the crests and deep dark blue in the troughs. So the raft drifts across a sea that\nvisibly rises and falls, all in blue, turquoise and white.",{"title":15,"searchDepth":16,"depth":16,"links":143},[],"An airplane as a raft of bamboo sticks, drifting across a three-dimensional mosaic sea.",[146],"\u002Fimages\u002Fsample\u002Fraft.png",[148,149,150,151,152],"Bamboo skewers","White yarn","Styrofoam","Plaster","Glass mosaic stones",{},"\u002Fen\u002Fpieces\u002Fraft",{"title":136,"description":144},"en\u002Fpieces\u002Fraft",[158,159,160],"Lashing bamboo with yarn","Shaping waves from styrofoam & plaster","Mosaic setting","approx. 8 kg","kqS0ADVkRIggn2Vvdgio0yAOQtYmvkfXmUWJwBFhcnE",{"id":164,"title":165,"body":166,"description":173,"dimensions":19,"extension":20,"images":174,"materials":176,"meta":183,"navigation":32,"path":184,"seo":185,"shadowColor":96,"shadowShape":186,"stem":187,"techniques":188,"weight":192,"year":43,"__hash__":193},"pieces\u002Fen\u002Fpieces\u002Fsteampunk.md","Steampunk",{"type":8,"value":167,"toc":171},[168],[11,169,170],{},"The theme is steampunk, and it is plain to see. The airplane is shaped like a jet with a pointed nose, modelled from\nfaux leather and brass joined together and trimmed with gears that play up the mechanics. The background is a block of\npressed wood, covered in granite film and strewn with many small gears in a gold and copper finish. The real surprise\nsits at the tail of the airplane: a working clockwork whose gears turn on their own. The still image becomes a small\nmachine that genuinely runs.",{"title":15,"searchDepth":16,"depth":16,"links":172},[],"An airplane of faux leather and brass, decorated with gears, some of which turn by themselves.",[175],"\u002Fimages\u002Fsample\u002Fsteel-punk.png",[177,178,179,180,181,182],"Faux leather","Brass (gears)","Granite film","Wood","Clockwork","Paint",{},"\u002Fen\u002Fpieces\u002Fsteampunk",{"title":165,"description":173},"gears","en\u002Fpieces\u002Fsteampunk",[189,190,191],"Leather & brass work","Assemblage","Working clockwork","approx. 2 kg","oS_phsh2CMNNJLWPA5X_SUkMmYYInNla4P5r_OL5C3w",{"id":195,"title":196,"body":197,"description":204,"dimensions":19,"extension":20,"images":205,"materials":207,"meta":212,"navigation":32,"path":213,"seo":214,"shadowColor":215,"shadowShape":216,"stem":217,"techniques":218,"weight":224,"year":225,"__hash__":226},"pieces\u002Fen\u002Fpieces\u002Flava.md","Lava",{"type":8,"value":198,"toc":202},[199],[11,200,201],{},"Hard edges, poppy colours, cool geometry. Hexagonal columns of cast plaster lie tile by tile across the surface, their\nwhite skin run through with a fine crackle pattern. The form quotes the basalt columns of the Giant's Causeway, that\nnatural wonder built from nothing but perfect hexagons. Between the columns a stream glows out in neon orange, like\nfresh lava forcing its way through. Above it floats the airplane in orange plexiglass, sawn, drilled and held together\nby black brass rods, with an angular tip of aluminium. Nature and machine meet here in the same strict geometry.",{"title":15,"searchDepth":16,"depth":16,"links":203},[],"An orange plexiglass airplane above a field of plaster hexagons, with lava glowing beneath them.",[206],"\u002Fimages\u002Fsample\u002Forange-hexagons.png",[151,150,208,30,209,180,210,211],"Orange plexiglass","Aluminium","Acrylic paint (crackle finish)","Neon-orange spray paint",{},"\u002Fen\u002Fpieces\u002Flava",{"title":196,"description":204},"#FDD3B7","hexagons","en\u002Fpieces\u002Flava",[219,220,221,222,223],"Plaster casting","Sawing & drilling plexiglass","Bolted assembly","Crackle technique","Hexagonal tiling","approx. 6 kg","2025","_xz7MXedxKXqKjv_YAITlzPKZZS3x0NeOf8Fe-LK67o",{"id":228,"title":229,"body":230,"description":237,"dimensions":19,"extension":20,"images":238,"materials":240,"meta":244,"navigation":32,"path":245,"seo":246,"shadowColor":247,"shadowShape":67,"stem":248,"techniques":249,"weight":253,"year":225,"__hash__":254},"pieces\u002Fen\u002Fpieces\u002Fmoss.md","Moss",{"type":8,"value":231,"toc":235},[232],[11,233,234],{},"Nature, but dressed up. The airplane is built entirely from artificial moss, glued piece by piece into an open,\nperforated form so the green keeps its soft, living texture. Behind it sits a field of round branch sections, each a\nslice of real wood, laid in a circular pattern like growth rings spreading outward. The gaps between them are filled\nwith plaster and painted gold, a warm metallic seam running between every piece of wood. The wood itself is stained to\ndeepen its colour and seal it against time. Raw nature and quiet luxury meet here: moss and wood on one side, a thread\nof gold on the other.",{"title":15,"searchDepth":16,"depth":16,"links":236},[],"A paper airplane of artificial moss floating over a wheel of round wood sections set in gold-painted plaster.",[239],"\u002Fimages\u002Fsample\u002Fmoss.png",[241,242,243,61,62],"Artificial moss","Round wooden branch sections","Plaster (painted gold)",{},"\u002Fen\u002Fpieces\u002Fmoss",{"title":229,"description":237},"#D8C48C","en\u002Fpieces\u002Fmoss",[250,251,252],"Plastering","Wood staining","Moss appliqué","2.5 kg","Xd-pE9ndy7XcMV07Bt4z4HYtv3InjNSp7qlc72d2d3g",{"id":256,"title":182,"body":257,"description":264,"dimensions":19,"extension":20,"images":265,"materials":267,"meta":271,"navigation":32,"path":272,"seo":273,"shadowColor":215,"shadowShape":274,"stem":275,"techniques":276,"weight":224,"year":225,"__hash__":281},"pieces\u002Fen\u002Fpieces\u002Fpaint.md",{"type":8,"value":258,"toc":262},[259],[11,260,261],{},"Loud on purpose, fully in the spirit of Pop Art and Andy Warhol. The airplane is shaped from plaster with comic-book\nedges, and wears cyan, magenta and yellow, the three primary colours of every print. Beneath it spreads a field of\npyramids in various sizes, each with a dab of clay at its tip, likewise in cyan, magenta and yellow, recalling the mouth\nof a paint tube. The airplane cuts its path so fast that drops in the primary colours trail off its tail. Colour is not\ndepicted here; it is the subject itself.",{"title":15,"searchDepth":16,"depth":16,"links":263},[],"A plaster airplane in the print colours cyan, magenta and yellow, sweeping Pop-Art-loud across a field of colour-dabbed pyramids.",[266],"\u002Fimages\u002Fsample\u002Fpaint.png",[151,26,150,268,269,270],"Clay","Poster paint","Acrylic paint",{},"\u002Fen\u002Fpieces\u002Fpaint",{"title":182,"description":264},"brushstrokes","en\u002Fpieces\u002Fpaint",[277,278,279,280],"Plaster modelling (wire core)","Styrofoam pyramids with plaster coat","Comic-style edge emphasis","Painting","prfaM4P6nqH7OFMs3MT1S6tkRFNRhD9ocrQcWsuS3uo",{"id":283,"title":284,"body":285,"description":292,"dimensions":19,"extension":20,"images":293,"materials":295,"meta":300,"navigation":32,"path":301,"seo":302,"shadowColor":215,"shadowShape":303,"stem":304,"techniques":305,"weight":310,"year":225,"__hash__":311},"pieces\u002Fen\u002Fpieces\u002Fsun-flower.md","Sunflower",{"type":8,"value":286,"toc":290},[287],[11,288,289],{},"Picture a summer day when a sunflower decides to fly. That is exactly what this piece is. Every petal is cut from felt\nand dipped one by one into a colour bath, until the hue bleeds softly into itself, the way light settles over real\npetals. At the nose rest real sunflower seeds, dyed dark, full and fresh as if lifted from the heart of a bloom. The\nairplane is not a whole flower but a single section cut from one, a piece of sunflower that has risen from the field and\ndrifts off across the summer green.",{"title":15,"searchDepth":16,"depth":16,"links":291},[],"A sunflower lifting into the air. Cut from felt, dyed by hand, carried by summer.",[294],"\u002Fimages\u002Fsample\u002Fsun-flower.png",[296,297,25,298,299],"Felt","Sunflower seeds (dyed)","Cardboard (backing)","Wood (back panel)",{},"\u002Fen\u002Fpieces\u002Fsun-flower",{"title":284,"description":292},"petals","en\u002Fpieces\u002Fsun-flower",[306,307,308,309],"Felt cutting","Dip-dyeing","Seed dyeing","Collage","1.9 kg","d6P0rSSN3NUkG44WlhacfEeccYxWhpBIL0bE2fEXbIg",{"id":313,"title":314,"body":315,"description":322,"dimensions":19,"extension":20,"images":323,"materials":325,"meta":330,"navigation":32,"path":331,"seo":332,"shadowColor":96,"shadowShape":333,"stem":334,"techniques":335,"weight":339,"year":225,"__hash__":340},"pieces\u002Fen\u002Fpieces\u002Fwhite-on-black.md","White on Black",{"type":8,"value":316,"toc":320},[317],[11,318,319],{},"My very first piece. What rises here in white is not an invented airplane but the model with which Takuo Toda set the\nworld record for longest time aloft, around 28 seconds in the air. It is the same model I flew at the Swiss championship\nand the World championship. Shaped from plaster bandages and painted white, the airplane sits sculptural and tangible\nagainst a field of black pyramids, styrofoam under a skin of plaster, sprayed metallic black. White against black, soft\nfold against hard geometry. The simplest contrast imaginable, and the beginning of everything.",{"title":15,"searchDepth":16,"depth":16,"links":321},[],"The world-record model for longest time aloft, rebuilt in plaster bandages, white against a field of black pyramids.",[324],"\u002Fimages\u002Fsample\u002Fwhite-on-black.png",[326,150,151,327,328,329],"Plaster bandages","Black metallic spray paint","White paint","Wood (base panel)",{},"\u002Fen\u002Fpieces\u002Fwhite-on-black",{"title":314,"description":322},"triangles","en\u002Fpieces\u002Fwhite-on-black",[336,337,338],"Plaster-bandage modelling","Geometric pyramid forms","Painting & spraying","1.1 kg","GVxcYtmTFsnnqwCqLjW2mtR3H23LGK6y6-eC0_pvvH0",1780518564147]