Intervall Murals

In the process of collaging, there are always scraps of paper that are too good to go. At some point, Various & Gould began to pick up these elements and place them at the center of new designs. 

Here, the strips with their random shapes and the halftone dots wandering over the cut edges become waving banners or parts of a dissolved rainbow. Sometimes they are made of bent metal sheets, sometimes of crumpled paper and sometimes, when they appear in murals – as in the examples shown – this three-dimensional appearance is recreated with painterly means.

The strips of color tend to move horizontally in a rhythm across the wall and are staggered in front of each other. Teardrop motifs, consisting of partly open and partly closed eyes, move between them. These elements tend to follow the laws of gravity and traverse the picture vertically.

The theme for the mural in Wittenberge was chosen by the citizens: “Life by the river”. For us, life means movement and change. We flow with the stream; sometimes we let ourselves drift, sometimes we swim against the current towards a certain goal. Opening up to new things is part of this. So the theme became something translated to “Life IN the Stream”.