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In
Frank Cottrell Boyce’s story Millions, the 7-year-old Damian builds himself a
hermitage out of cardboard boxes. Located near the West Coast Main Line, this
ramshackle building becomes his retreat: here he can dream, cry and play.
Damian assembles the cardboard boxes like multi-coloured wooden building
blocks, guided by his imagination, conversations with saints and the need for a
private
Friedrich
Fröbel (1782-1852), educationalist and originator of the Kindergarten,
recognised play as the prime activity enabling imagination to produce results;
he created the first range of simple coloured building blocks. In his
Interaction of Color (1963) Josef Albers continues this interest in exploring
geometric colour combinations to develop and encourage consciousness, thought
and perception.
Figure:
Wax, plaster, metal (Height 150cm Width 45cm Depth 45cm)