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Mai Bauvald
She/They
The Netherlands
www.instagram.com/maibauvald
Thesis: You Looking Back at Me
Looking from afar, I can’t tell excavators are led by another. In a way, we appear so similar that I can not believe they’re not alive: bones connected by joints, tendons contracting and releasing, water running through our pipes. Each of us with our own mouth, saying a different thing.
Clay allowed us to come together and form a new being that could be the representation of both of us.
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