Too many hard serves.

I knew from Leander’s dad, that he is just in the process of applying to secondary school, which is when your performance in school really starts impacting on your future opportunities. Since the racket he handed in had clearly been handled too roughly, it made me think of the saying work hard – play hard. Leander himself is doing well in school without making too much fuss about it, but nonetheless he aimed for the best possible secondary school.

Still serving hard, but this time the ball suffers instead.

Competitiveness is so ingrained in us all, that we bring it with us also in our leisure activities, always trying to be best and to win. To give this stress some kind of body, I created a ball that has been struck so hard that it has melted into the racket, fusing itself with the net while sweating blood. Badminton is after all, a game where iron hard smashes should be alternated with feather light ripostes.

Stuck in the net.

Object no. 8