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15 October 2026
Where Does an Idea Begin?
Chidirim Nwaubani — 4 min read · 41 photos
12–25 October 2026
Visit — Notice of Reclamation at art’otel London Hoxton
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12 Oct 2026
Film Screening — Notice of Reclamation
LOOTY × Doyle Wham — 2 min read
October 2026
Notice of Reclamation — LOOTY’s First Solo Exhibition, Frieze Art Week
Doyle Wham Gallery — 3 min read
October 2026
Mbari Memorial — My First Solo Show, Frieze Week
Chidirim Nwaubani — 2 min read
12 Sep 2026
Ogene MIDI takes an Honorary Mention at the London Design Biennale 2025
LOOTY Studio — 4 min read
8 September 2026
Who Owns the Digital Past? — .ART
Daria Kravchuk · .ART — 4 min read
30 May 2026
Panel — Decolonising the Museum, live from Venice
LOOTY Studio — 3 min read
February 2026
Winner at the Cape Town Art Fair
Chidirim Nwaubani — 2 min read
February 2026
LG and Chidi Nwaubani Reimagine African Heritage at Investec Cape Town Art Fair
Lulama Klassen · Cape Town ETC — 4 min read
2026
The Rosetta Code · Stuff the British Stole
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2026
The Rosetta Stone Was Taken From Egypt. This Artist Took It Back
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June 2025
Digital Cultural Heritage: Imagination, Innovation and Opportunity
British Council · Research & Insight — Report
April 2025
LOOTY NFT — Season Two mint is open
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March 2025
Featured in The Guardian: Rewriting Ownership
Press — 6 min read
7 Feb 2025
LOOTY × Art Dubai — Live Reconstruction
LOOTY Studio — 3 min read
January 2025
New LiDAR scans added to the Open Archive
LOOTY Studio — 2 min read
January 2025
Ogene MIDI is now playable online
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14 Dec 2024
Workshop — Scan Your Heritage, London
LOOTY Studio — 3 min read
November 2024
BBC World Service: an interview with Chidi Nwaubani
Press — 4 min read
3 January 2023
How NFTs and 3D Printing Are Changing Restitution — Frieze
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TEXTKnowing that most acts of creation will soon be fully automated, you begin to cherish the present moment through a retrospective lens.
A new item feels like an antique. You can buy something brand new, hold it in your hands, and genuinely feel the weight of time as you think to yourself, this is how we used to make things.
It’s a blessing amidst a cloud of pessimism.
But, why is that cloud there? Are we the only beings/things with a right to create? Does that right not belong to God alone?
If yes, what are we, as children of God, responsible for in this scenario?
Prevent technology from assuming God’s power? (Wouldn’t God, strike it down, for nothing is more powerful than Him? Would he let us perish?)
Maintain faith that technology cannot become God? (Would we be judged as anti-evangelicals for not actively fighting the greatest challenge to Hod’s power that we’ve ever known?)
On AI, Time, & God’s Judgement
Knowing that most acts of creation will soon be fully automated, you begin to cherish the present moment through a retrospective lens.
A new item feels like an antique. You can buy something brand new, hold it in your hands, and genuinely feel the weight of time as you think to yourself, this is how we used to make things.
It’s a blessing amidst a cloud of pessimism.
But, why is that cloud there? Are we the only beings/things with a right to create? Does that right not belong to God alone?
If yes, what are we, as children of God, responsible for in this scenario?
Prevent technology from assuming God’s power? (Wouldn’t God, strike it down, for nothing is more powerful than Him? Would he let us perish?)
Maintain faith that technology cannot become God? (Would we be judged as anti-evangelicals for not actively fighting the greatest challenge to Hod’s power that we’ve ever known?)
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St. John the Forerunner
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Henri Alexander Levy, Synthesizer Prison Unit
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Arthur Jafa, Ex-Slave Gordon, 2017, vacuum formed plastic, 57 × 44 × 9 inches
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Liebling, 2025
Sarah Księska, German
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God Creating the Universe, 13th c.
God Creating the Universe
German medieval sculptor
13th century
Stone
Cathedral, Freiburg
Until the advent of Copernicus, all knowledge about the universe had to be made to fit into the framework of the Ptolemaic model in which the Earth was firmly the centre of everything. The sculpture in the Freiburg Cathedral shows God creating the Universe, with the planetary spheres inside, covered by the sphere of the fixed stars.
Servizio da cocktail "Ferris Wheel"
Matilde Piacentini
Nome dell’oggetto, collezione in cui lo avete trovato
‘Ferris Wheel’ and Manhattan skyscraper shaker set, appartenente alla collezione della Pullman Gallery
Tipologia di oggetto
Servizio da cocktail con shaker
Luogo
Il servizio da cocktail è stato prodotto a Rome, città statunitense della Contea di Oneida, nello stato di New York
Data
La produzione dell’oggetto risale all’anno 1936
Designer
A lavorare al progetto del servizio da cocktail “Ferris Wheel” è la geniale figura di Norman Bel Geddes, all'anagrafe, Norman Melancton Geddes. Nasce il 27 aprile del 1893 ad Adrian, in Michigan e vive sino all’anno 1958, dove si spegne all’età di 65 anni.
Una volta terminati gli studi all’Art institute di Chicago, Norman, protrasse la sua passione per l’arte anche nelle sue professioni. Specializzandosi in periodo di piena crisi statunitense, Geddes acquisì visibilità rendendosi noto per la grande fiducia che egli ripose nel futuro dell’era delle macchine.
Lavorando nel campo della pubblicità (1913-16) e della vetrinistica (1927-30), maturò una propria conoscenza delle vendite e del commercio; la comprensione dell’importanza dello stile di un artefatto e quindi non solo della propria funzionalità lo portarono ad apportare lo stile a goccia (Streamlining, lo stile aerodinamico, in voga in quegli anni) ad ogni superficie dei propri progetti.
Il ruolo fondamentale nel gran successo che riscosse fu la sua fervida immaginazione a cui l’uomo non pose limiti; le forme filanti e snelle, forti ed innovative raggiunsero le esposizioni universali, i semplici arredi di casa e persino i mezzi di trasporto. Il contributo alla lavorazione scenografica nel teatro dell’opera del Metropolitan Opera House fu di base per lo sviluppo delle ampie abilità da scenografo di cui godeva Norman; non c’è da stupirsi che una delle sue opere più memorabili, “Futurama”, da un semplice padiglione divenne una vera e propria giostra interattiva ed al tempo stesso educativa.
Impresa / committente
Revere Copper fu l’impresa che collaborò con Bel Geddes per la produzione del set da cocktail “Ferris Wheel”.
Revere Copper è un’azienda fondata nel 1801, considerata una tra delle più antiche aziende manifatturiere americane. Tutt’ora attiva, opera in diversi campi quale quello dell'architettura, dell'elettricità, delle telecomunicazioni, dei macchinari industriali, delle attrezzature e altri ancora.
L’impresa nasce a seguito della Rivoluzione Americana per esigenze industriali e militari. Con il fine di migliorare le prestazioni militari della propria nazione, Benjamin Stoddert, comprese l’importanza di investire i propri averi sulla laminazione del rame. Quest’ultima, con il compito di rivestire i fondi navali, apportava notevoli miglioramenti alle navi della marina, tra i quali: mantenne puliti gli scafi, aumentò la durata di navigazione assieme alla durata del tempo in cui una nave poteva rimanere in servizio durante le revisioni. Inoltre, la placcatura in lamine sottili, a contatto con l’acqua salata, si ossidava impedendo l’accumulo di detriti e rallentando il processo di degradazione del legno.
Operai metallurgici come Paul Revere vennero quindi finanziati per l’accurata lavorazione del rame. L’uomo seppe ricoprire al meglio il ruolo grazie ad una precedente formazione professionale; Paul difatti al tempo del finanziamento aveva già lavorato nel campo come argentiere. Il suo bagaglio di esperienze comprendeva l’abilità di fusione del metallo, mosso dall’incarico di produrre campane e cannoni, ma anche nella forgiatura di bulloni e punte di rame.
Al crescere della propria fama, Paul Revere fondò la Revere Copper & Co.
Materiale/i e tecnica
I materiali utilizzati nel set da cocktail sono principalmente due, ossia, ottone cromato e vetro. Il primo compone quasi totalmente l’intera struttura (ed accessori annessi) del set da cocktail mentre il vetro è ripreso nei 12 bicchieri da cocktail e nei 4 vassoi di vetro che giacciono lungo la Ferris Wheel.
Dimensioni dell’artefatto
24x22.7x17.25 pollici (61x57.8x43.8 in centimetri)
Descrizione dell’artefatto
Poche decadi prima dell’avvento della Seconda Guerra Mondiale cessò il Proibizionismo; architetti e designer dell’epoca si focalizzarono nella progettazione di strutture volte a garantire intrattenimento e svago ai cittadini statunitensi. Vennero ideati edifici dalle forme stravaganti e dinamiche, spesso irrealizzabili, come il ristorante Aerial che lo stesso Bel Geddes tentò di progettare. Ciò che accomunò i vari progetti di bar e nightclub fu la sperimentazione dei materiali allora considerati all’avanguardia; metalli cromati e vetro venivano ora pensati per ricoprire le ampie superfici delle nuove architetture. Come sopra citato, sono proprio questi i materiali che Norman volle adottare per il suo set da calici.
La denominazione dell’ornamento non è casuale; “Ferris Wheel” si traduce dall’inglese come Ruota Panoramica. Osserviamo come spesso Bel Geddes scelse, per la produzione di oggetti di minori dimensioni, la ripresa di forme che alludevano a strutture, mezzi di trasporto e addirittura palazzi di entità largamente maggiori. Il set da cocktail, a forma di ruota panoramica, riproduce le componenti principali di quest’ultima copiandone la sua principale funzione, quella di rotare. Il “cerchione tubolare”, in ottone cromato, è affiancato da una coppia di shaker che fungono da “motori” della giostra. Gli shaker di Bel Geddes comparvero nuovamente in ulteriori progetti. Nel servizio “Manhattan” la stessa forma, ora posta su un vassoio a gradoni, ricordava vagamente una piazza con grattacielo mentre la bottiglia “Soda King” Syphon Bottle acquisì l’aspetto di un razzo spaziale.
L’oggetto è finalizzato ad agitare e successivamente servire bevande alcoliche, i vassoi in vetro sono invece pensati per la degustazione di olive e stuzzichini.
Importante da menzionare fu la sua comparsa nel film “Il Padrino II” del 1974.
Motivazione della scelta e attinenza con l’argomento della settimana
Lo Streamlining segna un importante cambiamento avvenuto nella storia del design, si inizia a parlare della figura professionale del disegnatore industriale.
La componente estetica acquisisce un ruolo fondamentale nel portare a buon fine la vendita. Bel Geddes scrisse:” La vetrina del negozio è un palcoscenico sul quale la merce viene presentata come attore... La vetrina deve catturare lo sguardo; focalizzare l'attenzione sulla merce; persuadere l'osservatore a desiderarla". Ferris Wheel appare nelle pubblicità come un prodotto sofisticato e accattivante ma al tempo stesso economicamente accessibile alla classe media.
Il prezzo conveniente è dato da un uso minimo ma efficace dei materiali che rispecchiano il gusto per le cromature, che si ebbe in quegli anni. Ma “Ferris Wheel” non si relaziona al concetto di macchina solo per le materie impiegate nella sua produzione; a farlo sono anche la struttura e le qualità che acquisisce l’oggetto. Le superfici sono lucide e lisce, le sporgenze risultano levigate come quelle di un macchinario destinato a muoversi. Nel 1932, Bel Geddes, scrivendo il libro “Horizons”, impose che il design moderno fosse in grado di rispondere alla crescente velocità di aerei, barche, automobili e qualsiasi altra cosa si muovesse. Bel Geddes si preoccupava in particolare della resistenza al vento e delle superfici adatte a consentire un passaggio fluido dell'aria.
Le architetture dello Streamlining ambivano a vertiginose verticalità, gli shaker, che fungono da “motori” sembrano slanciarsi verso l’alto.
I disegnatori industriali, del movimento, non vollero rinunciare alla funzionalità degli oggetti ma dovettero riconoscere quanto un aspetto accattivante fosse necessario nel mondo del mercato. Gli oggetti acquisirono forme stravaganti, Norman modellò il servizio sottoforma di ruota panoramica; eppure, la sua funzionalità non risulta camuffata, è facilmente intendibile. Walter Dorwin Teague affermò che il conferimento di una sagoma aerodinamica a oggetti immobili, destinati all’arredamento, servì ai designer per trasmettere lo spirito del tempo. Una necessità tipica dei mezzi di trasporto, la riduzione di tempi e distanze, è ripresa in Ferris Wheel; gli alcolici vengono serviti con immediatezza, senza rinunciare al gusto estetico, un considerevole numero di bicchieri viene ora offerto in contemporanea.
Riferimenti
Bibliografici
https://books.google.it/books?id=H8gAaZj2e-AC&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=Norman+Bel+Geddes+%E2%80%98Ferris+Wheel%E2%80%99+cocktail+set&source=bl&ots=QmtXOINYsd&sig=ACfU3U0gkrBZ0JNYoLkS-urFDhgoP4YTTA&hl=it&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiao7LTz6j8AhWVc_EDHf57AM44ChDoAXoECBQQAw#v=onepage&q=Norman%20Bel%20Geddes%20%E2%80%98Ferris%20Wheel%E2%80%99%20cocktail%20set&f=false
Consultazione del libro “Il progetto della bellezza” di Maurizio Vitta
Web
https://pullmangallery.com/item/norman-bel-geddes-ferris-wheel-cocktail-set-1936/
http://www.evanmcglinn.com/Shaken%20Not%20Stirred.pdf
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/184673/manhattan-cocktail-set
https://reverecopper.com/about-revere/
https://arthistoryunstuffed.com/norman-bel-geddes-domesticating-streamline-design/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revere_Copper_Company
visione del video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoAdcujfo3A
https://www.sbandiu.com/2019/09/11/norman-bel-geddes/
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Bel_Geddes
visione del video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uymXWa89Ylo
Michael Heizer: Altars
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Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels, 1460
Giovanni Bellini, Italian
Fritz Klimsch
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Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus (Reproduction)
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(1) Boîte de réception • Direct
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St. Augustine in His Study, 1490
Sandro Botticelli, Italian
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Lenovo x Xander Zhou, 2012
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Image Research - Gradient Maps
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industrialkonzept on Instagram: “Ca’n Terra by Ensamble Studio
Ca’n Terra (meaning “house belonging to the earth” in Catal...
6,272 likes, 26 comments - industrialkonzept on December 9, 2024: “Ca’n Terra by Ensamble Studio
Ca’n Terra (meaning “house belonging to the earth” in Catalan) emerged from a serendipitous discovery during a family vacation. Stumbling upon what seemed like a cavern, the couple realized it was an abandoned Mares stone quarry, once used as shelter during the Spanish Civil War. Inspired, the architects (@anton_ensamble) acquired the site and began transforming it into a unique holiday home. The process started with detailed laser scans of the dark, raw space, enabling the architects to explore its potential and shape its interior. Spanning 1,000 square meters, the home reveals a sequence of undefined rooms, each adaptable as social or private spaces depending on need. The minimalist furnishings are carefully chosen to integrate seamlessly into the carved nooks and crannies. Metal elements are introduced sparingly, serving only functional purposes like balustrades for safety between levels. Photos: Iwan Baan (@iwanbaan)
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David Hammons
table 1296, 2021
Chris Fusaro, Canadian
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Data Dots Emotional Intensity, 2015
Lia Cook, American
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Furniture, Modern furniture, Minimalist design, Table lamp, Metal, Glass, Aluminum, Sculptural form, Geometric form, Modern, Minimalist interior, Elegant, Artificial light, Accent lighting, Symmetrical, Polished, Smooth, Studio photography, Product photography, Detail view
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A modern sculptural table lamp with stacked geometric metal frames and illuminated frosted glass panels, photographed against a neutral background with a power cord visible.
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Alexandre Charpentie, Martydom of Saint Sebastian, c. 1897
Statuette of a Child God, probably Horus the Child, 664–30 BC
Unknown Artist, Egyptian
Angel Holding Scroll, 1400
Giovanni Balducci, Italian
One of the Set of the Four Evangelists: John, 1580
Alessandro Vittoria, Italian
Figure of a Seated Leader, 300-600 CE
Totonac, Remojadas
Veracruz, South-Central Gulf Coast, Mexico
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The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (1915-23)
This is a piece from Marchel Duchamp, a famous artist who is known for his so-called readymade’s. Duchamp took mass-produced objects, did not change or edit them and presented them as art, to mock artistic practices and to show that everything can be viewed as art. The concept of detournement which the Situationists practiced, is similar to Duchamp’s readymades yet with a more political means. In this work, there are two big sheets of glass put together vertically in a gold frame made of metal. Interpretations of this work lean towards sexual reproduction and love. In 1926, the glass broke. Duchamp found this to make his work more complete. By stating so, he critiqued mechanical reproduction and techno-utopia by consolidating technical failure and accident or, glitch. Art is a ‘’bearer of its own content’’, and since the glass is broken the glitch here is the art (IVC Author, 2014). Furthermore, the broken glass makes visible what normally is invisible and thus draws attention to otherwise ‘’an unconscious and ideological relation to knowledge and truth’’ (IVC Author, 2014). Applauding or even intentionally cause technical failures to convey a critique or express a vision is nowadays very common in art.
Wall relief created by Costantino Nivola for the Olivetti' showroom in New York (1953) © Museo Nivola
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John Hejduk / chapel
Inside Doorway Sas Bahu Temple, 1882
Lala Deen Dayal, Indian
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Enzo Mari
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IDLE™ // No-Mind Extrait de Parfum
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CASABLANCA: THE COMPENDIUM OF HOME (Heidi Lu, 2019)
“Diaspora, relates to forced movement, exile and a consequent sense of loss derived from an inability to return. This is applied to the mass movement of Africans via slavery… this association of movement and migration with trauma, and containing within it a constant loss and yearning for an obtainable home is one of the main foci of critiques of the classical model of diaspora”.
-Virinder S. Kalra
In his seminal work Black Morocco: A history of Slavery, Race and Islam, Chouli El Hamel writes that “the situation in Morocco (trans-Saharan diaspora) was similar to the trans-Atlantic diaspora, with zones of cultural exchange, borrowing, mixing and creolization as well as violation, violence, enslavement and racially segregated zones” (Hamel 2013: 5). He argues that although Moroccans do not claim that slavery never existed, their ‘culture of silence’ regarding the history of slavery and race has resulted in black Moroccans being located on margins of community. The trans-Saharan trade was the predecessor to the European trans-Atlantic trade, and existed for far longer, however it is the least discussed of the two. This project seeks to offer some redress to the silence from a speculative, architectural lens.
Moulay Ismail (Arabic: مولاي إسماعيل بن الشريف ابن النصر), was the longest reigning Sultan of Morocco from 1672-1727. He was romantically involved with many of his slaves, most notably with Lalla Aisha Mubarka, often referred to as Zaydana, who was his “favourite wife and queen of the palace” (Hamel 2013:192). Zaydana was purchased for the Sultan’s harem as a slave concubine for sixty ducats. Despite the fact that Sultans only married women from prominent families, the Sultan married Zaydana who grew to have a significant influence over the state’s affairs through her personal influence over him. The “Empress of Morocco”, Zaydana is described as “black, and of enormous height and size…[with] power over [the Sultan’s] mind…manag[ing] him as she pleases” (Hamel 2013:193).
The writing of history has always been curated and recorded by those in positions of power. This distortion of historical narratives continues to perpetuate legacies of colonisation and oppression. Despite her power at the time, Zaydana’s story is under explored yet holds revealing insights into black female slave historical narratives of triumph over the men and spaces that would seek to control them.
My Major Design Project seeks to uproot and unearth the ‘silenced’ narratives of the largely under-documented trans-Saharan slave-trade through a contemporary retelling of Zaydana’s history. Sigmund Freud would refer to exposing these ‘historical edits’ as unheimliche, meaning ‘[that which] should have remained hidden and secret and yet comes to light’ (Freud 1949:12). Architecture is often said to be a vessel for politics, memory and history, physically and metaphysically engaged with questions of the self and the environment in built form (Pallasmaa 1996). Through a speculative proposal - a home for Zaydana - I explore how retelling her story through a domestic architecture can reveal novel, emancipatory configurations and constructions of the home, particularly for black Morrocan women today.
As with any cultural grouping; in Morocco, traditional ‘home’ typologies are indicative of various social orders and hierarchies in family structures, societal structures, and private/public relations. Arising from the French colonisation in Morocco, Moroccan women lived in “enclosed households” with harems, where extended families lived together. Harems were also where concubines were housed, in the service of kings and masters. Social and communal life is played out in several public ‘home’ typologies in Morocco - in the mosque, the hammam (public baths),the riad (courtyard), and the communal bakery. Looking critically at the construction of ‘home’ and its complex history and relation to several dynasties of power in Morocco, my project uses a close reading of the history of slavery in the region, resulting power-relations and gendered exploitation today as a conceptual setting for the new house for Zaydana, where histories of oppression, subversion and triumph of black female slaves are housed; a repository of both fact and fiction.
Building on the notion of the Unheimlich as a concept related to “feeling” more than it is related to the visual, the project also draws on Pallasmaa’s ‘tools for memory’ (Pallasmaa 1996:47), tied to the haptic, the performed, the sensory and the felt, the realm of experience, rather than relying on the visual alone. The project uses these and other tactics through story-telling, performance and re-enactment to suggest a new architectural vocabulary of the Moroccan ‘home’ that attempt to undo the hegemony of the dominant narrative.
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The HoneyPot Home Products Grid Design & Animation
Hey, Glad to share with you another piece of the HoneyPot project. Today, it is a products grid page animation. If you follow my works, you should already know that I did a full redesign of a very cool plant-based feminine care e-shop. The Honey Pot is more than just a feminine care company.
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Scene: a young couple walks into a general contractor's office to discuss their custom home project and check out some in-progress photos. After reviewing a few images, they say: "Hey, we love that bathroom, but can we put it on the side of the hall instead?
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Christine Ödlund Amiralens Trädgård / The Admiral’s Garden / 2013
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APOSSIBLE — How can technology better support creativity and human fulfillment?
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Use Layouts 'confidential folder' component — a dark card ('Stay hungry — For people who still build the work.') with a typed 'PRODUCT BRIEF' confidential card sliding out of a folder. Source: https://uselayouts.com/
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bencho.dev — dark node-based canvas UI; a 'Node 07' card ('Reads the thread, writes a summary, and posts it back to the channel it came from') with an avatar group (+3) and a floating toolbar (link, add, duplicate, settings). Source: https://bencho.dev/
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[ 21 ]2024A Journal of Reflective DiscourseMuseums & Social Issues2024Seeing Through DisruptionThe Augmented City2024Can location-specific digital technologies help to resolve debates on restitution?The Art Newspaper2024The Artists Digitally Liberating Colonial PlunderNoema Magazine2024‘Can you steal back something that’s already stolen?’: how radical art duo Looty repatriated the Rosetta StoneThe Guardian2024Meet Looty, a New Project That Infiltrates Museums, Makes NFTs From Stolen Objects…Collections Natural Science2023Biennale ArchitekturyBiennale Architektury2023A High-Tech Heist at the British MuseumThe New Yorker2023A ‘Digital Heist’ Recaptures the Rosetta StoneThe New York Times2023‘Looty’: How a dog stolen from China sparked a British luxury crazeCNN2022Meet Looty, a New Project That Infiltrates Museums, Makes NFTs From Stolen Objects…Artnet2022Can NFTs help reclaim Africa’s looted cultural heritage?Forbes2022Nigeria’s Looty seeks to reclaim African art in digital formBBC News2022This NFT Project Offers ‘Digital Restitution’ for Looted African ArtARTnews2022‘Looty’ project launches digital art heists to reclaim African artifactsReuters2022Art Plundered From Africa Stolen Back, Sold as NFTsFuturism2022Meaningful ReturnsOutland2020/23How NFTs and 3D Printing Are Changing RestitutionFrieze2019New NFTs of looted African art releasedBoodle Hatfield, Art Law—With Looty, The Case For Digital Repatriation Gains A New Ally: NFTsJing Daily Culture—Museums and NFTs: what’s the opportunity, who’s doing it best and why question marks remainMuseumNext
Field Notes
[ 3 ]November 2025What the Archive ForgetsAbsence as evidence — reading the gaps in a record as carefully as the entries.
December 2025Notes from a ResidencyA month in an unfamiliar studio, and what the unfamiliarity taught the work.
March 2026Memory as MaterialWorking with archives, provenance, and the weight of what gets kept.
In Progress
[ 4 ]What is on the bench right now — scans, builds and half-finished thinking, updated as they move.
Updated August 2026Thinking
Current thinkingI’m currently working on thinking deeply about what the next stage of my life as an artist and creative technologist is. No doubt this year has been a tough year, and so many things have been thrown at me with the death of my father, the losing and loss of my main income. But still this yearning to create remains. Sometimes I wonder whether this particular stage in my life is just a test for the things that I should be doing. For those that have been following me and seeing my practice develop, this is just a quick note to self and a reminder to keep going and never give up.
Practice

Updated August 2026Building
Mbari Memorial — Frieze week buildThe Shoreditch solo show opens 12 October at Art Otel, a continuation of the Tomorrows/Today-winning installation. Casting, AR overlay and the programme with Jumbi are all still moving.
Installation / AR

Updated August 2026Scanning
Open scan archiveRebuilding the download layer so every object ships with its provenance attached rather than as a separate file.
Web / Archive

Updated July 2026Thinking
Ogene MIDI — after the Honorary MentionWhere the ritual-as-algorithm work goes next, following the London Design Biennale showing.
Sound / Sculpture
Notes to self
[ 3 ]In Progress3
One of the life lessons I’ve learnt over the last 3 months with the passing of my father and loss of my main job is that God will not put challenges in front of you that you are not ready to overcome. I’m so grateful for the opportunity I have to create and would not give this up for the world.
- Mbari Memorial — Frieze week buildcurrent working
- Open scan archivein progress
- Ogene MIDI — after the Honorary Mentioncurrent thinking, haven’t started yet