04 May 2017
New book Pipsqueak was here!!!
The new book of Pipsqueak was here!!! is online available at
The American Book Centre
We are
an Amsterdam based artist duo, driven by a strong passion for all life on
planet earth. In our work that has developed quite a bit over the years this
theme remains untouched.
The
logo we have chosen for Pipsqueak was here!!! Is a found object. On a trip
through Maui we photographed an old traffic sign depicting both a boy with a
fishing rod followed by a cat and a girl carrying her teddy bear followed by a
dog.
Underneath
the words, caution children at play. It took a while before we realised how
much this image meant to us. The words, caution children at play, seemed to
refer to the way we as mankind deal with our environment. Stating we are
children that play with the planet in a rough fashion. It is a warning that
combines to be cautious with the soothing fact we are playing as children,
young ones that need to be educated. The girl with the bear eventually became
our logo and also an image we started using for many works.
Animals have always been an
integral component of human storytelling. They stand in for humans in fables
and take the place of people in morality tales. The animals in our work, in
particular the bears, are not metaphorical placeholders for humans, but are actually
what they are supposed to be, animals. The purpose of representing animals
literally in our art is to fundamentally change the way we regard and interact
with animals in the real world. As environmental worries have grown, the
relationship between animals and humans has become more strained.
There is a profound connection
between consumer society, the politics of power, and the mechanisms of desire.
The promise of a good life in terms of happiness, well-being and the success of
an individual presumed that we have to have more stuff, has become compulsive.
But this growth doesn’t really come without consequences. We act in a reckless
way, using more natural recourses, taking more space and leave less nature for
other inhabitants on this planet.
Concerns about the preservation of
natural habitats to the quality of life for animals bring up issues that
deserve to be considered. We don't know if the world needs saving,
it's the human race that might need saving. We've got to return to a
balance within the world.
We try to put our message across in
an attractive way. It's important
for audiences to see that it's not too late – or people won't see the
point in doing anything. It is not a silver bullet, but we
hope to start a dialogue.
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