Material: Cast aluminum

Walking on stilts used to be very popular. At one time almost every household owned a pair of stilts. In the meantime, playing with them has gone out of fashion so that characteristics. It might be because normal stilts are not very versatile, you can’t do a great number of things with them and they require contact with the ground –maybe that simply makes them not cool enough. I wanted to counter this seeming deficit with an absurdly cool version. In order to do so, I began by picking a place where it was unlikely that anyone had ever walked on stilts: underwater in a swimming pool. The transfer of the stilts to a different medium needed tobe accompanied by a transformation of their form and functionality. The underwater stilts would need to adapt to the water much as animals once did when they left the waters to live on land. For this reason, my stilts are streamlined, making it easier forthe stilt walker to carry out the movement under water. The purpose of the wing-shaped outriggers is to stabilize the forward motion and the movable fins serve to facilitate rotary movements. As wooden stilts would rise to the surface, making underwater stilt walking a permanent fight against buoyant forces, these stilts are made of aluminum. In the underwater light they have a glistening silvery glint.