When you are at art college you spend a lot of time collecting random bits of paper. The art students are very eco friendly in that aspect. So when I went to Berlin with my college we were told to do sketchbook work and take photographs and document the trip. There are three reasons why I made cranes instead of collage: one, I did not have a glue stick with me. Two, I was too lazy to find a glue stick and stick them in and three, everyone else was doing collage.
My first crane was made out if a paper bag where my breakfast came in. It was square to start with other wise I would have made a boat. I was happy that I remember how to do them, but I guess that after you have doen it enough times I will never forget. I like the shape of it and as my recent project is all about freedom, you do not get anymore free than wings. So after that everything was made into cranes: the boarding pass, chewing gum wrapper, receipts, gallery leaflets, maps and even part of an art work, which you were aloud to take with you. I thought that is was a great and original idea, to document my berlin trip in cranes. I can now pick up any crane and give you a story to go with it.
Whenever people ask why I was chose cranes, I said that was because of all the building that was happening in Berlin and all the many cranes that were needed in the process.
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