Concept · 4 steps · Postmodern frame

Distortion, Scale and Exaggeration

The full climb — from why a giant spoon stops being a spoon, all the way to staging your own oversized everyday object the way Oldenburg did. Four short steps, each with its own toy to play with.

1 Where it comes fromScale a common object from tiny to giant and watch its meaning slide from cute to absurd. 2 How to do itStretch, squash, skew and scale a shape with handles and sliders, live. 3 Where it gets trickyPush the distortion until the meter flips from "transformed" to "destroyed". 4 Out in the wildOldenburg, Lucas and Mueck — then drop your own giant object into a place.

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