User:Inge Hoonte/Machine Part No.5
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In the oeuvre of Stanley Brouwn (1935 Paramaribo SME), the footstep plays a key role. A footstep is a personal linear measure as opposed to the standardised meter. Not one step is ever the same. Brouwn conveys this concept by creating works in which he presents the length of his strides in lines. ‘one step (11x)’, for example, shows 11 lines that all differ slightly from one another. Brouwn also produces works in which he involves the viewer. In the 1960s, he asked passers-by to show him the way to a certain location and draw the route. These works were exhibited under the name ‘this way brouwn’. ([ptype=18&tx_vabdisplay_pi1[project]=13&cHash=cbf4e9669a Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, 2007])