Model materials themselves usually carry little information. They are somehow not particular, i.e., available in copies. Perhaps it is a settled gesture to the industrial materials that usually 'come clean' and are available as copies of some unit.
In the last few 'sculpture-models' I have limited altering of the 'building blocks' to the minimum. In particular here, the object begun in a form far off from the final. The shape it has gained is a consensus primarily among the proportions of the elements. Every coffee-stirrer is intact (and has a nice 'finished' rounded edge).
Same happens in terms of structure: I have not used any glue. Some string was needed to hold the main rectangular units together before they were put in tension with the rest of the structure.
On one hand, it is laziness not to complicate the making with too many aids (tools and additional materials), on the other - it makes for a challenge.
By now the 'bridge' has also aged a bit. The wooden pieces deflected permanently making the connections weaker.
For some reason it feels 'Japanese' to me. 1. As a bridge it does not necessarily stretch over anything. It is more of a garden-walkway. 2. The clean, bear materials in this context resonate of some 'Japanese' feng-shui honesty/aesthetic.
Well, there may be some martial arts about it. It manages its destruction with tranquility; tames violence into an aesthetic form. It is too well-tuned perhaps to be either in-destruction or in-creation.
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