Creative Direction & Design
“I will update this site soon, promise.” In the meantime enioy this:
A rock is a perfect metaphor, an allegory in volume. When placed it’s sculptural limits beget a kind of artistic proposition — and when considered with reduced anthropomorphism and ungeologically — produce a ready-made analog to the causation and bounds of our attempts at the understanding of all things.
Here the sculptor has made no concessions; no attempts to curry favor with curators or collectors — pieces wholly outside discourse. And if pressed for an affiliate movement for these “sculptures” (i.e. Cubism, Mannerism, etc.)… perhaps Monism or Cosmogonism? Definitely not Conceptualism or Pataphysics — Actualism?
The analog? Well for sure it is 1:1. Weird; yes — a knot to be admired for it’s curves — not for untying. An emergent surface as thick as it’s mass.
Were it possible for the instances of our minds or world events to be mapped and dimensionally materialized, something similar to a rock would appear — areas of smoothness yielding to pockmarked particularities, density shifts and feathered explosions. What really is the shape of a boom town? A pilgrim’s journey? A section of jungle mayhem? A boring era? The silhouette of a father’s cold slap? The contours of a brief, intense friendship? Comfortably we perceive all of these things as ready to be integrated into ledgers or novels or timelines; but really they are queer crags and striations of unimaginable idiosyncrasy.
So yes, the reflective, reasonable yield of our mind has much symmetry (computation, cataloguing, narrativizing, etc.) but it’s actual shape is no shape, but unfolding chaos and singularity visible only to our particular time-scale. Our species-wide symmetries and quantizations are basically improvisations white-labeled onto directionless infinitude attempting the constant creation of navigable Dimension.
So, look intimately at a rock, walk around it, get up close to it, savor it’s complexion and composition as you would any painting or temple and see it as the faultless mirror that it is — a truly perfect sculpture.
Info
Helge Kiehl / Anklamer Str. 49 / 10115, Berlin
WORK
07/2021 - today
Creative Director / Co-Founder
someform www.someform.studio
07/2020 - 07/2021
Creative Director / Designer
(Freelance)
06/2016 - 04/2020
Co-Founder / ECD
f°am Studio www.foam.studio
06/2015 - 04/2020
Creative Director /
Part of ZEITGUISED www.zeitguised.com
04/2014 - 05/2015
Director / Designer / Visual Development
(Freelance)
12/2011 - 04/2014
Director / Designer (Full-time employment)
Sehsucht Berlin www.sehsucht.de
11/2009 - 11/2011
Designer / Art-Director (Full-time employment)
Sehsucht Berlin www.sehsucht.de
08/2008 - 10/2009
Designer (Full-time employment) Sehsucht HH www.sehsucht.de
04/2007 - 07/2008
Designer (Freelancer, Student)
Paperlux www.paperlux.com
EDUCATION
Design Factory International College
of Communication Arts & Interactive Media
Institute of Design / IN.D Hamburg
Illustration & Photography