W: What was the starting point of this project?
Tom Ribot: I think the way I started thinking about this project was when I remembered a book about the theory of visual thinking an old friend mentioned to me. The theory distinguishes the visual perception to the visual thinking. I guess the idea of the work I am making is a challenge to a visual translation of this theory or at least mine.
W: In which ways do you challenge this?
Tom Ribot: Well, I think the challenge is set on the understanding of this theory
and the example I will make out of it through my work. My practice has always been very intuitive until now and still is. I am aiming for something specific this time. There is also the awareness of how difficult it is to make this sculpture. I won’t say I am making the easiest by making a wooden elastic band basically.
W: Can you tell us more about the actual craftwork?
Tom Ribot: I have always orientated my work towards materials that I have been surrounded by when I was a child. It brings up memory while I am working; which I find very important in my
