Banta 1.1

Banta 1.1, something between sculpture and machine. It seems to me a bit like an old machine building whose walls have been scrawled all over. The ventilation slots could suggest a technical inner life.



What fascinates me about it is that it looks old, but at the same seems as if it could be made viable again. One might be able to find out what the function of this device is.



The hole in the surface developed because the original version Banta 1.0 was exposed to the sun for a long time on one side. An unanticipated development that I was happy to accept. The sculpture had become deformed at that spot and I later removed the part. Only then did I paint on the abstract drawings.