Objects of Fascination travelling Kurt Andersen and Rick Poynor

Kurt Andersen and Rick Poynor

and interviews

The Body’ at Iwami Art Museum in Japan examines the echoes between the shape of a garment and the human figure

You have to know that they are there

With contributions by Vanessa Brazeau

Objects of Fascination travelling Kurt Andersen and Rick PoynorDuring the pandemic, 45 people were invited to take part in a serious game: each participant selected the image of a personal object of fascination, out of which a shape was extracted, redrawn, scaled and sent to a CNC machine to be cut out of a 5 mm thick aluminium sheet and become a low table. Each table is here presented through the original image that generated it, the selected contour, a text by its author and photographs of the prototype taken