Author: Matt Mullican
Melted phones. Wooden table + display case: 109x61x37 cm. Unique work.
In the early 1980s, he began incorporating objects of various kinds into his work, often melted objects or now obsolete machines. The reason behind collecting these objects was his fascination with the transfer of energy and its relationship to the transfer of information. "Reconstructing the Fifth World" exemplifies this with two melted telephones, objects whose meaning and function have been lost, reduced to pure matter, pure elements.