Hussel: 1.The best-selling books reflect a collective mental state—how people seek solutions through reading.
2.Cutting carrot greens and placing them in discarded bottles symbolizes my symbiotic relationship with doubt / trouble.
3.”Travel to the West,” a famous Chinese book, depicts a journey through 81 disasters to attain Buddhist scriptures, symbolizing the quest for truth. The main characters consist of a monk, a monkey, a pig, and a sand monster.

Gijs: My overall intention is to create an installation that offers the viewer a somewhat distorted (through my interpretations and projections) window into the thoughts of someone at a moment of trying to create and make sense of a few small but layered things. I imagine it to be quite comedic not in a satirical way, but because of how it will be hard to place.
It should not at all be explanatory, but there should be enough ‘bridges’ to help the viewer ‘feel’ that there’s an internal logic there that has a special kind of coherence which is possible to explore. A little dive into the mind of Hussel at a precise moment…