Feddow Claassen

An unexpected combination of two elements that rarely coexist. A 19th-century Japanese porcelain Imari charger combined with sleek, contemporary polished metal mirrors, integrated to form something more remarkable than the sum of its parts.

The inside of "de Gevangen Poort" in The Hague covered with aluminium mirrors.

By crafting a physical manifestation of the smeared trail we see when an object moves faster than our brain can process I encourage viewers to reflect on the perception of movement, highlighting the intricate relationship between reality, and artistic expression.

By crafting a physical manifestation of the smeared trail we see when an object moves faster than our brain can process I encourage viewers to reflect on the perception of movement, highlighting the intricate relationship between reality, and artistic expression.

An antique Chinese Qianlong plate combined with sleek mirror elements to create a lot of confusion but just enough visual harmony..

An improbable pairing of two elements that are unlikely to occur together. A 19th century Japanese Imari charger and modern polished metal mirrors are integrated to form a new, greater whole.

A large Concave shape showing reflection and absorption and a given amount of steps in between. These steps are the ratio between absorption and reflection, scientifically called albedo. Albedo is measured on a scale from 0, corresponding to a black body that absorbs all light, to 1, corresponding to a body that reflects all light.

Half a century ago, NASA sent Voyagers I & II into space carrying gold-plated records with images and audio, intended to be universally understandable. Currently, they are 20 billion km away from Earth with a message we cannot change. As I child I was obsessed with this ‘universal message’ explaining who we are. I decided to create my own from an artist’s point of view. In my opinion, IKEA’s iconic wordless assembly instructions of the iconic ‘Billy’ bookcase, designed to be understood regardless of language and culture, is the quintessential universal language. What could possibly tell other species more about us?

Build Portable radio together with it’s (also hand made) reflection. Which one is real? Which one is a reflection? What do we see when holding the right-one in front of a mirror? the left-one?