| La Scala was designed for the theatre De Meerse in Hoofddorp. The work was
named after the famous theatre in Milan.
The origin of this work lies in language. La scala literally means ladder:
the object placed on the roof of the theatre is a ladder of words. But the
French word for ladder, l'echelle, also means 'scale' - the proportions of
a map. This meaning evokes an idea of perspective: things that become
smaller, vanishing into infinity. So doing, the ladder has been distorted and the perspective lines disappearing into the
vanishing point have been emphasised.
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