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Dream Makers
Abstract macro photograph of translucent glass fragments captured by Jana Katrín and Patrick Pankalla, showcasing texture, light, and organic form for Dream Makers project.Abstract macro photograph of translucent glass fragments captured by Jana Katrín and Patrick Pankalla, showcasing texture, light, and organic form for Dream Makers project.

Dream Makers

Experimental art direction and material exploration

This work began as an open exploration, a focus on making rather than arriving at a final result.

By letting go of the idea of an endpoint, we allowed ourselves to move more freely, to explore without knowing where things might lead. Along the way, we noticed how often our usual way of designing is guided by the end, how we tend to picture the outcome before we even begin.

An idea often arrives hand in hand with its conclusion, the end imagined before the beginning has even taken shape. This time, we chose to do the opposite.

What happens when we pause that projection and let the process become the work, not a means to an end? When the act of making itself becomes the destination.

Working with tools and materials unfamiliar to us, we set out to challenge our habits of making. These are fragments, snapshots from a nonlinear process, moments of exploration documented along the way. Rocks collected, cast in plastic, reborn in plaster. Each material found, reformed, reimagined.

Year

2025

Type

School

Location

Royal Danish Academy

Designers

Patrick Pankalla

Competencies

Experimentation

Software

None
Black and white image of wooden objects being processed in a machine with a hot warning sign.Close-up of hands shaping a glass object with a tool, surrounded by bubbles during glassblowing.Person cutting a piece of wood with a utility knife on a workbench.Black and white abstract pattern with swirling shapes and fluid, marbled textures.Person holding a wooden frame containing various clear, rounded resin or glass shapes on a marble surface.Close-up of a machine with a metal frame holding droplets of liquid on a flat surface and a caution sign indicating 'warm hot'.Person scrubbing the inside of a large dirty bucket with a brush, with another bucket of soapy water nearby.Man wearing a face mask and cap working with a large container in a workshop.Young woman smiling while working with large rectangular molds on a table in an industrial workshop.Hand opening the door of an industrial oven with gauges and control knobs on the front panel.Wooden box clamped together on a workbench with a translucent textured sheet inside.Close-up of transparent water bubbles frozen in ice with light casting shadows on the surface.Close-up of a finger gently touching wet cement making a visible groove.Black and white photo of a graph paper notebook with a 3D sketch next to a pen and a cup on a marble surface.Close-up of wet sand with natural grooves and water reflections in black and white.Hand with a chain bracelet stirring a thick liquid in a large, worn bucket.Person pouring liquid from a large bucket into a container filled with foamy liquid, in a workshop setting.Black and white photo of two frames clamped to a workbench, each holding a transparent mold with various shapes.Worktable with painter's tools including masking tape rolls, scissors, scrapers, gloves, respirator mask, and a marker.Close-up of transparent molds with bubble shapes on wooden boards placed on a textured surface.Black and white photo of a textured rectangular concrete block casting a shadow on a white surface.
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