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transit taschen
* shapeshifting bags
t transit / gender
• study Project ID HS-PF
interdisciplinary project accessoire design
Black and white. Male and female. Happiness and pain. These binary polarities are dependent from another and form a unit. In transit, in life, we are always moving between these and are consistently changing. My bag collection „obake“is meant to abstractly materialize and communicate exactly this consistent change.
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...of the bag concept is achieved in aluminium frames which are covered with elastic material. If you look at the bag from the side, its shape is unobtrusive. However, when it is filled with everyday objects, the contours of the objects are pressed through the material. The shape of the bag varies, depending on the composition of the content, and depends on their form. The result is a unique silhouette that changes anew, time and again. Which is perceived differently by the observer rather than by the wearer. The elastic covers as well as the straps are interchangeable. Making it possible to change style/colour and length of the straps resulting in various ways of wearing/carrying the bag.
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frame - cnc cut aluminium
elastic covers - latex sheet
straps - leather
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Transit is the passage between A and B.
If you replace A with birth and B with death, the transit describes life.
We all travel in life in the same direction.
Towards death.
Unlike the original meaning of transit, the final destination is no longer B but rather the journey itself. Each one of us will find salvation in death, the difference lies in how one arranges the path there.
On this path we are constantly exposed to opposing poles. These poles form individual binary oppositions and embody what are often perceived as the only possible options. Black or white? Male or female? Homosexual or heterosexual? Suffering or happiness?
The fact that these same poles are always interdependent and that one cannot exist without the other is often ignored. In the present tense there is a smooth transition between them.
"When we sit together at the table with the sorrow, we must not forget that happiness is sleeping in our bed".
While you get lost in binary structures you often only see the opposite extremes but not that they mix and therefore all facets between black or white and all shapes between rectangle and circle exist.
Through transit, through our movement towards death, we are constantly moving between these oppositions. We never stand still and know exactly where we are positioned. In addition, we reshape and redefine the image/shape of our poles through external influences, such as culture and the environment, and through our own principles and experiences.
With my bags I want to address the constant change, deformation and movement.
With the aim of removing the users and spectator’s idea that there is a fixed form or definition of opposites and that one could position oneself stationarily between them.