2011

Melody

Melody (A guitar pick on a table in a room in a building in a city in a country on a planet in a space) is a guitar pick that I found on the streets in Rotterdam one day in 2011. I imagined the guitar pick had been used to play many songs, and a such had a history of melodies of its own, and by picking it up, it felt like i continued playing those same strings, echoing through time and space.

The piece was made while I was studying at the Piet Zwart Institute and then later shown at various places, among them at a project space in London called Five Story Projects, where the title was changed accordingly: Melody: A guitar pick, on a shelf, in a room… etc.