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   Marcin J Chmura @ the United Suburbs

Dear visitor, 
I like stories, architecture, and drawings.  I like making them but I can't help getting them mixed up.  Sometimes I start making one and it becomes another. And other times, I’ll confidently start making another and realize it should’ve been something else all along. 

To address this problem, I squint my eyes until their boundaries blur  — just enough to make them look like one big blob.

Marcin J Chmura
01. Flip the Bird(box)
Antepavilion
Competition Honourable Mention

Installation
Hackney London, UK
2021
‘Flip the Bird(box)’ was shortlisted for the Antepavilion 2021 design competition, held in response to Hackney Council’s enforcement action against the pavilion series. The competition asked for a defiant and expressive gesture within the urban landscape. This proposal uses the legal protections of wildlife conservation to mount a “tongue-in-beak” protest by inviting roosting birds into the installation, the Bird(box) becomes untouchable under UK conservation law. Aimed squarely in the direction of the council’s office, it is a playful and pointed critique of planning enforcement.