According to critical media scholar Villem Flusser each medium is created by man as an explanation of the world in order to facilitate his orientation within society. Yet, each medium is posessed by the same sly dialectics: instead of representing the world, media present the world as it is perceived by them. In other words, one could state that media determine our visiion upon the world and not the other way around.
Taking this knowledge as a basis and with a sharp knife ‚Desire Varves‘ is sculptural collage works, that carve the various, intersectional layers out of the socio-economic construction 70‘s Playboy Magazines facilitate.
In a similar manner to the annual sediment that ecological structural varves have in lacustrine deposits and marine environments, the pages of the magazine lay bare how race, gender, class and a multitude of societal sediment has been constructed a few decades ago and dominates trajectories that define our present day being, effect and affect.
