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KLEIN-BOTTLE PLAYGROUND
2000
The playground is a bottle with four necks: a sphere that bulges out into four tubes. Each tube loops back on itself and penetrates the shell of the sphere; each tube squeezes against the other and crosses through the sphere, where it flares out to merge with the inside of the shell – as it merges, it makes an opening into the sphere.
When you enter an opening, you’re inside one neck of the bottle. Where the surface is perforated, you can climb through the tube; you hang onto the top, cling onto the sides, crawl across the bottom. Where there are no perforations on the bottom of the tube, you can slide down the surface. You climb, you slide, through the neck of the bottle as it passes from inside the bottle to outside and then enters inside again. You emerge inside the bottle now, but outside the necks of the bottle; you squeeze between tubes and sphere – you step, you climb, you push and pull, between the interior surface of the bottle and the exterior surface of the necks of the bottle.
From the inside now, you crawl into one neck of the bottle again; you climb and slide through the tube as it shoots out of the sphere and then circles back and comes in again, and passes through the sphere again, and now you’re outside in the open air.
This project view belongs to Klein Bottle Playground, and is threadged with:
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