This painting corresponds to the “Airport” painting : the outline of my irregular heptagon constructed only with the help of the “Golden Rectangle”. The spectator is again involved to connect the invisible lines inside of the ‘outline’. Endless possibilities.
This painting shows how to ‘construct’ an irregular heptagon on the basis of the ‘Golden Rectangle’. Even if this is an irregular 7 sided polygon(irregular heptagon) there is an intrinsic feeling of harmony and balance that can only be explained by the continuous use of the ‘Golden Section’. Every corner and every intersection of each line can be endlessly connected to another corner or line, the grid getting smaller or larger maintaining total congruency. -If you look at it long enough the ‘lines’ start jumping out at you in 3D and the spaces shift and shake uncontrollably!
Angel Sofa (photographed in living room, 2011 in West Vancouver, Canada)
Angel sofa
(L.:300cm,H.:76cm,D.:108cm, Solid aged fir, plywood, high gloss enamel and 17 fitted removable and washable cushions, Dirk Marwig 2011)
-I don’t really like making something “useful” but sometimes one just cannot ‘buy’ what one is looking for: in this case a big, cool, solid sofa with ‘built in’ side shelves, moveable and washable cushions and a super hard hi-gloss finish. This sofa is so solid you could probably put a car on top of it! Here are the pics showing the building process(no screws or nails were used-just wood dowels and glue) and the finished Sofa. This photo was taken in 2011-a few things have changed since then in my living room but the sofa still “shines” as if new and I use it a lot. The sofa also has a secret compartment which nobody could find, even if they looked very hard and a “time capsule” with info about myself(pics ,flash drive, catalogues…) built into the framework!
Sometimes ‘it’ just happens: with my kind of twisted logic I cut various pieces of plywood rests at a particular angle, assorted the cut pieces according to size and then started sewing the pieces together. Without thinking or expecting something great to happen I then connected the 2 extremes and with surprise, suddenly came the idea. I made a few more pieces and the idea came to life: the object you see in the photo. During the construction “it” fell 3 times from my work table to the ground- “it” never broke despite it’s fragile appearance.
“Balkonien” the resort on the balcony(‘Balkon’ in german). If you can’t afford to go anywhere on vacation, you can always go to Balkonien!
-I used 32 ‘Golden Rectangles’, dissected them into their major components (2 triangles or 3 proportionate squares for one rectangle) then reassembled them to construct this wall object.
-If you look closely the “Golden Rectangle” appears everywhere: for example: negative space + positive space = a Golden rectangle or just look at the positive spaces: large and small ‘Golden Rectangles’ appear everywhere, even overlapping each other. It’s like ‘filling in’ the missing line(s) to construct the perfect rectangle with your mind.
I always wanted to make a ‘mobile’ or a ‘kinetic object’ with perfect balance but not with ‘wire’ because for some reason I don’t like ‘wire’. This plywood object hangs from the ceiling with a nylon string and moves, shakes and turns according to the air current in the space.
Here is a photo of the little ‘desk-object’ called “?”
I gave this little “desk Object” away today on my “Ello” page: https://ello.co/dirkmarwig
This little gift was token of my appreciation to all the people who have shown interest in my work on that site. It was ‘given away’ to the first person who contacted me via my website (dirkmarwig.com) and shortly after posting it(like 3 minutes) a request was already in my e-mail.Now it is somewhere in Australia.
This wall object’s appearance depends on the lighting or illumination.
This wall object is a meditation piece. It’s made to relax and stimulate the mind at the same time. Something for the retreat in the log cabin in the mountains.