Artificial Grass
‘NATURE IS TO HARD TO MAINTAIN’ said homeowners and football arenas alike – thus was born the plastic grass, no need for lawnmowers. However, the bliss was temporary – it turned out that the oil-based green granules leaked into waterways, polluted oceans, lakes and the hallways of families.
Frequent Flyer Card
In the fossil age, frequent aviation was the mark of success – embodied by these tiered memberships. They gave access to exclusive lounges, early boarding and discounts. More emissions equaled more admissions, a vicious cycle of fly-buy-fly-buy.
Nylon Socks
In 1939 at the New York World's Fair, the American chemist Du Ponts introduced the first synthetically manufactured textile fiber and the success was a fact. Nylon, "strong as steel but thin as cobweb", consisted of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen.
Bernd & Hilla Becher, Hochöfen (Blast furnaces/Masugnar), 1981/82, Neue Galerie, MHK, Kassel
Part of a series of b/w photographs ("typologies") that sheds light on the similarities and variations in the design of blast furnaces in the Ruhr area in Germany.
Postcard from a ski resort, 1989