Saving visual tools to achieve maximum effect is the principle on which all the aesthetics of minimalism are based. Air is perhaps the most ascetic material available in the artist’s arsenal. In the perforated items and furniture, the air works on an equal footing with the basic material, and the “holed” items acquire lightness and some special laconic luxury.

It seems that the punch cards for old computers served as a prototype of these things. If you remember, on these naive information carriers, a broken sector meant a unit, and a non-broken sector meant zero. A ray of light read their sequence, converting to binary code. Actually, modern computers do the same thing, but a little more elegantly, without exposing the “physiology” of the process.

In the perforated thing, “physiology” also fades into the background - instead of it some kind of touching-ethereal essence appears in it. It can also be perceived on several levels. Near you see only cutting - rows of clear holes. But if you take a couple of steps back, a holistic picture will appear. A complex graphic pattern can appear on a single-colored fabric, a delicate lace moire can appear on inflexible steel, and pieces of light flying in all directions on a source tree ...