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I’ve just started to define myself as an individual designer, but I use the term<br />

‘designer’, I’m not an artist in that sense. For me what’s going to, probably<br />

[laughs], define me in the future is the blur between art and design where these<br />

disciplines mix. It’s a really new field that is just about to be explored and<br />

hopefully I’ll be one of the people who define what that is going to mean in the<br />

future. I am sure I’ll be a designer in that field while others will come from the<br />

artistic side and maybe also do design, but still be an artist. I’m sure I’ll be a<br />

designer getting closer to what is defined as art, but using my knowledge from a<br />

design background.<br />

37. How would you identify the community of practice or discipline<br />

that you most closely relate to?<br />

There isn’t that much work yet. Within the next few years, if I can afford to, I’ll<br />

try to stretch the area within different extremes. Hopefully I’ll be able to cover a<br />

wide range of things and during that process there’ll be a direction that is going<br />

to be more important to me than others. It’s a bit too early for me to answer that<br />

question.<br />

The new problems and possibilities that relate to globalisation, what’s<br />

happening in the east in terms of production, how markets are falling apart<br />

more and more, or get so small because they are too fractured – I want to be<br />

part of what’s happening right now, so my work will relate to these conditions.<br />

38. How would you define the relationship between your work and<br />

its audience?<br />

For now it’s going to be both, clients, companies, individuals I can reach<br />

through galleries or my website and obviously, if you go through a company<br />

with a product it’s the people buying it in the end.<br />

39. Do you think there is a trend towards an emerging, hybrid<br />

discipline?<br />

It’s the whole range and it’ll probably stay like that because while I’ll be able to<br />

do more properly designed product, the inspiration I get from doing individual<br />

conceptual work, at the same time I’ll be able to do bigger or even more<br />

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