sCULPTURE & aRCHITECTURE   

Building happens when you engineer a haircut like architecture.

The whole construction consists of blocks, like boards or bricks - and you, as a hairdresser, build them one after another.
If one block is poorly made, the entire construction distorts.
Building design is all about structure and rows.

To decompose this approach we start from the point. The single hair. The follicle.
A point on the scalp. When we comb through the scalp we get a line - a section, a parting.
When we comb through the hair and pull it, we get another line.
Add the cutting movement - that creates another line, and you get a flat.

Keeping a 90-degree angle between these three movements always makes a rectangular element,
and this is the key to predictability and control.
You can easily build any shape with this method. That’s what architects do.

But if you want to make a more nature-like shape, the architect’s approach doesn’t work that well.
Natural forms are structured too, but they don’t consist of boards and bricks.
In nature, each element obeys the overall force but lives its own life.
Elements resemble each other but are never equal.

Here we don’t build the structure, we reveal it.
We cut hair off piece by piece, uncovering the shape that was hidden inside the mass.
We unpack the haircut. We give it freedom to live.
This sculptural approach is less precise, but it can be perfect in its imperfection if you know the laws of composition, if you feel balance, rhythm, texture.
That’s what you need to learn first if you want to cut hair like a sculptor - the basics of composition and design, the things they teach in art school.

Armed with this knowledge, you can create from intuition.
You can let the shape guide you instead of forcing it.

These two schools of hairdressing are always fighting each other.
Hair architects stand against sense and intuition, claiming that only precision creates beauty.
Sculptors say architects have no creativity and only obey the rules.
They never find understanding between each other.

And what camp am I from?
None of them.
Or maybe both.

I use them together - and then I add a third element: destruction.
Chaos. Scars of life. Because chaos is what controls the order.