DIEDERIK SCHNEEMANN

What Diederik Schneemann is doing in his latest collection is trying to ‘catch' this luck and holding on to it by assembling it into a furniture object. He is doing this by throwing dice, not in a casino but in his atelier. He is throwing thousands of dice with the intention to throw a six, but all the two's, three's and so on are put aside whereas only the sixes that come up, the stones that carry the luck with them, are worthy enough to be used as building blocks (six on top) to create a table, a mirror, a candelabra, or any other object. Thus he wants to include incorporate luck into whatever he is creating, and this luck will be passed on to whoever has a ‘click' with one of the dice objects and brings it into his personal living or working space... Diederik Schneemann's latest collection is called Lucky Dice. It evolves around the concept of luck. What is luck? Does it exist? Is it something we can provoke, and hold on to? We all know the feeling of a lucky streak or the lack of..