The Homo Ludens Project

Inlays:

An inlay (via Italian intarsiare, "to lay in", from the synonymous Arabic verbal noun Arabic ترصيع, DMG tarṣīʿ) is a decorative technique in which various woods and other materials are laid in or against each other on a flat surface in such a way as to create a flat surface containing inclusions of different colours and textures. If the inlays are rather ornaments, one speaks of wood mosaic.

Wood:

Tom Dransfeld has been working for years with found wood that he finds in the streets of Berlin.

Now you might think that it's lost boards that you have in front of your head. That is somehow true. Our ways of looking at things are limited.

The Game:

Tom Dransfeld: " Art to me is about creating something from nothing or reimagining what was and through slight adjustments creating a new vision. Art is both of these and you can see how that is possible. Massage is harder to imagine but you are taking two creations, two people and reimagining how they can interact and communicate through touch. The board in front of your face is slowly being pulled to the side in order for you to see the possibilities on the other side."

Introduction

The other participating artists

The programme

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Tom Dransfeld

Other models:

Tom Dransfeld is a sculptor/woodworker and therapist from Neukölln. He will show his new inlay works. Entitled "A wooden Pitch", he will present oversized wooden boards that function as game boards with their geometrically laid out patterns.

Tom and Manuela will develop a game on them with the visitors - with their own rules of the game and new figures/models that act as stand-ins for the respective player.

What if all the players look the same?

Which figure then still belongs to whom?

Who wins then - and above all: what can be won?

(Questions that can also be found in Manuela's work...)

Game boards and board games

Inlays:

Wood:

The Game:

Other models:

Tom Dransfeld is a sculptor/woodworker and therapist from Neukölln. He will show his new inlay works. Entitled "A wooden Pitch", he will present oversized wooden boards that function as game boards with their geometrically laid out patterns.

Tom and Manuela will develop a game on them with the visitors - with their own rules of the game and new figures/models that act as stand-ins for the respective player. What if all the players look the same?

Which figure then still belongs to whom? Who wins then - and above all: what can be won? (Questions that can also be found in Manuela's work...)

Game boards and board games

Inlays:

Wood:

The Game:

Tom and Manuela will develop a game on them with the visitors - with their own rules of the game and new figures/models that act as stand-ins for the respective player.

What if all the players look the same?

Which figure then still belongs to whom?

Who wins then - and above all: what can be won?

(Questions that can also be found in Manuela's work...)