As a child, I was able to look at wallpaper for a long time. Where a pattern begins and where it ends. I discovered shapes that could also have been other pictures. I continued to play with patterns everywhere in my childhood as a counting disease. Every day on the street, on the way to school with asphalt sections and cobblestones that you were allowed to walk on or had to avoid! I knew exactly how many steps my house had, counted the tiles in the bathroom, when I lay in the bathtub every evening and swam in the cozy waves. My eyes searched for rhythms that followed a logic, or even several, that seemed seem appropriate and right. This precise search for systems is for children in the foreground of thinking and shapes them. Later, when they grow up after finishing elementary school, they are allowed to change these again. This overturning of rules, this questioning of what was first established, the abstraction of things and recognizing that some things are different from what they have known so far, makes you grow up.
Much later, around the 2000s, on walks with my child, I stopped for a long time cars of the same brand that had a small, running rabbit * on the back. Small bugs and snails were saved from our perspective when we found them on the asphalt and took them to the surrounding parks. We were about as big to the little animals as a whale next to a human child. But we never considered taking the running bunny, which was now clearly a picture, to neighborhood parks, after all, it was just a picture. The children will understand the sculpture as an offer to abstract. They will see things that are perhaps something completely different.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT, ARTISTIC IDEA:
A Blauwalkind (blue whale child) is as big as the Harlaching elementary school. The Blauwalkind is integrated into the architecture of the building, around the shaft and on the shaft wall. Its sculptural representation extends across the floors of the building, sculpturally forming the belly of the whale in the area of the canteen and the schoolyard.
Like after a leap out of the water its blow can be seen on the glass of the all-weather square: Drops of water foiled around or around or on one of the glass walls. As art in architecture at the school, it can also be a symbol of the times in which water and species have a special significance, with the blue whale being one species that must be protected.
A picture showing a whale in full size is difficult to make out. Many views show a piece of the back of the whale, as in the presentation of the a piece of the back sticking out of the water or the blowing whale jumping out of the water. The blue whale is up to 30 elephants in size, as big as thousand people and larger than many a dinosaur. It weighs up to 200 tons, tons and weighs more than all the children at our school put together.
When he “sings”, his voice is louder than an airplane on take-off, and he can drink 80,000 liters of water. It is the largest mammal, even the largest animal on earth. The heart of a whale is as big as a car with a rabbit *. The primary school building in Harlaching is as tall as a blue whale child of primary school age is long. If blue whale parents swim close together, they would be about as long as the elementary school.
From the bottom to the top, the blue whale child is continuous over five floors of the shaft wall in the floor sections on the wall. The pupils are see a blue-grey flute (= tail fin of the blue whale child) in the basement, which resembles the outline of a large bird or the shadow of outstretched wings. On the other side, south of the shaft wall on the ground floor on the plastic white “belly side”, you may discover the shape of a tree house in the dining room growing through the ceiling. Possibly they will recognize a bright waterfall due to the surface, they may recognize a bright waterfall that seems to come down from above. Each of the waves of the outer skin is reminiscent of the shape of a blue whale, blue-grey on its back and with its white stripes on the side of its belly break hall. The handmade wave sections are laid on the walls like tiles and like tiles and have delicate, colorful nuances. The pattern structure resembles the of water and waves in the sand. Wherever there is water, there is life on on our planet. It is mostly blue and complements the orange color scheme of the school. From the canteen to the schoolyard, you will find a large belly. Its wooden frame construction is planked with plasterboard, on which the castings are laid. When whales breathe, they emit a bubble (= air-water fountain), which can be seen above the “water surface”. In its representation at the school on the all-weather pitch, this is attached to the roof as a foil on the fencing glass enclosure.
CM 2023