Molenstraat - Gotcha

Have a look!

A big pile of shoes, size 38, out of which a hand that holds a shoe rises. Found it! Or in this case: ‘Gotcha!’

And as a matter of fact, Yuri Dils did not want to hand in a design this time. Skipping a year is also fine. But when his Annemarie asked him to take her red shoes out of the closet and he had to look for the red ones in the pile of shoes, something started gnawing. Of course! Why not?

He made a drawing of a pile of shoes with a triumphant hand and reported at Molenstraat. For his presentation in the hamlet Yuri took all of Annemarie’s shoes out of the closet and from elsewhere a lot more and deposited this pile of shoes on a table and said: “This is what it will be.” The hamlet was convinced, although… As a matter of fact, Molenstraat did not want to build something that was longer than the building tent. And to realise this design – that will consist of two floats – this will be necessary. But after some consultation that objection was passed. The pile will not be extremely high. It is only the arm with the red shoe in hand that wll stick out in fact. The entire hamlet could hand in shoes, size 38, at Yuri’s place and this way he composed the model and consequently the float.

For the welders and builders of the hamlet it is a nice challenge to give a shape to all those shoes. It will be a colourful whole of dahlias, dried dahlias and alternative materials.

Yuri likes order, also in this shoe chaos. With a working party he is going to set up a catalogue. The group takes a picture of every shoe seperately. With each shoe they will report how this should be shaped, with what kind of material, what kind of flower and so on. Yuri wants the hand that will emerge out of the pile of shoes to look as natural as possible, that means without flowers. And no further sound and no movement.

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Yuri Dils (39) is a display designer. ‘Gotcha’ is his 15th design. With the first seven designs he worked together with others. He made designs earlier for the hamlets of De Berk, Poteind and Raamberg and now for the second time for Molenstraat.

Original Dutch Text: Ton Biemans
Translation: Emile Wassenaar
Photo: Paul Ranft

Hamlet Molenstraat
www.buurtschapmolenstraat.nl

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