A SOFT WORD MADE FROM HARD THINGS
Fluffy was created in 2016 after Scoobafish was selected by Adobe to participate in WTFIT, a one-week creative challenge. A box containing unrelated industrial objects arrived with a single assigned word: “fluffy”. Every supplied item had to be incorporated into the finished work, with only glue and paint permitted as additional materials.
Rather than illustrating softness literally, Scoobafish constructed a memorial to a small owl. Safety pins, metal discs, clamps, cables and mechanical components form its body and the surrounding outline of a tombstone. Beneath the owl, a hand-built inscription remembers an affectionate creature that has become “stiff and cold”, setting tenderness against the physical hardness of the materials.
The work transforms an imposed word and a collection of disconnected objects into a single narrative image. Humour, affection and mortality coexist within the assemblage, while the contrast between soft meaning and rigid matter becomes the conceptual centre of the piece.
Fluffy was created in 2016 after Scoobafish was selected by Adobe to participate in WTFIT, a one-week creative challenge. A box containing unrelated industrial objects arrived with a single assigned word: “fluffy”. Every supplied item had to be incorporated into the finished work, with only glue and paint permitted as additional materials.
Rather than illustrating softness literally, Scoobafish constructed a memorial to a small owl. Safety pins, metal discs, clamps, cables and mechanical components form its body and the surrounding outline of a tombstone. Beneath the owl, a hand-built inscription remembers an affectionate creature that has become “stiff and cold”, setting tenderness against the physical hardness of the materials.
The work transforms an imposed word and a collection of disconnected objects into a single narrative image. Humour, affection and mortality coexist within the assemblage, while the contrast between soft meaning and rigid matter becomes the conceptual centre of the piece.
Year 2016
Dimensions 75 x 160× 10 cm
Materials Materials Assorted objects supplied by Adobe in the WTFIT challenge box, with glue and paint
Challenge Adobe WTFIT
Production time One week
Type Unique physical assemblage
Adobe WTFIT package received
How it works
THE COMPLETED WORK
"Now you lie stiff and cold in your hard grave but in my heart you will always be my adorable little soft cuddly owlet"
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