Weyers & Borms

the systematic dismantling of toys and household devices, the childish love for King Lego and Emperor Mecano, playing with fire, building camps and eating on the ground, our love for children and explosives, our fear of darkness, the death of M.S., our chronic disgust for hierarchy and uniforms, our fascination for a double rainbow, seagulls flying backwards, motorways lighted at night, watchtowers and beats, libraries and scrapheaps, senses and non-senses, the colour of a scene, the heat of ice, the ticking of time, the past as something to hold on to, the weakness of the flesh and the steely power of the mind, Byron & Shelley, Duchamp & Don Quichote, Hughes & Huygens, Hemmingway and Henry VIII, Verne & Vermeer, Witkin & Windekind, Zorn & Zoroaster.

What are the influences and who are our examples?

There are billions of them, ranging from original memory to instincts and to the endless series of sensory perceptions which man experiences from the moment he is born and for the rest of his life. Is a sword a weapon or a decorative piece of silversmithery? Are fireworks beautiful or dangerous? A funeral has no fixed ritual: it can turn into a feast or a family feud. Healthy children are the result of the mixing of blood.

One-sidedness leads to anaemia and boredom. The Inuit give their woman to the accidental passer-by. The rape of the Sabine virgins was no sporting match, but a premeditated move with important social consequences. Crosspollination is essential for life and particularly for creative life.

We are regularly asked to describe or explain our work, to classify it as belonging to a particular discipline or style. That is not an easy matter, it might even be impossible.

Our language is not the language of the word but that of image: we write three-dimensional stories. We do not like to be forced into a predesigned straitjacket. Design or sculpture, art or technique, modern or classic, lamp or light object; these are definitions which are too narrow for us and limit our creative quest. We swim in many waters and that gives us a good feeling.