Booted Emblem

Take a concrete cylinder of 16 cm diameter and embed a metallic pole (profile 2x2cm) within it. Attach a circular metallic disk or rectanglar surface to its upper end. Whatever image you attach to it is transformed into an emblem and can be glorified as a fetish or as a taboo. A further concrete cylinder can be added to stabilize larger circular surfaces; in this case the different distances between booted legs and the different sizes of the attached circular or elliptic surfaces create a family of different Booted Emblems.

The Booted Emblems are also ideal for transforming two-dimensional circular or elliptical surfaces into self-supporting sculptures; again – as was the case in the frog display – a booted emblem always proposes a privileged point of view. The use of booted emblems in rooms gives a decisive emphasis to the frontal perspective of a bidimensional work, allowing it to act as a spacial element, by allowing two dimensional objects to perform in three dimensions, literally by creating distance from a wall where it traditionally belongs. In so doing, the transposition of a vertical surface into a free-standing plane in space idealizes the surface. The rear of the Booted Emblem becomes an important feature and inverts its frontal function. The transportation of a surface in a vertical free-standing position in space, creates a certain idealization of the surface through the use of the poles and the cylinders treating a surface as one single facet of a unique valuable self-standing setting.