DUCK STUDIES — Series
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FLUX-S028
City · by appointment
A small specimen rubber duck on a muted blue-grey studio backdrop, three-quarter pose

HOW WE
STUDY A
SMALL DUCK

BEFORE COLOURS.
BEFORE LOGOS.
BEFORE SCALE.

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FLUX-S028 · FIELD NOTE 01

Strong objects don’t start with colour or finish. They start with scale. The Quacktory size ladder is a documentary exercise: six specimens, one silhouette, five orders of magnitude. Each study answers a different question — what does a duck become at 4 cm, at 15 cm, at 1.5 m? Read the ladder from left to right. Click any node to open its dossier.

PLATE 02 · SIZE LADDER

A line of five specimens, ascending.

  1. MICRO 4 cm
  2. CLASSIC 15 cm
  3. DESIGNER 20 cm
  4. MEGA 50 cm
  5. ARCHITECT 1.5 m

Click a node to open its dossier.

PLATE 03 · CATALOG

Six specimens, one palette.

Lifestyle scene of a small specimen duck on a blue-grey backdrop

FLX-000 / COVER

Field study no. 28

A specimen at rest. The plate from which the rest of the studies are cropped.

Micro specimen, 4 cm

FLX-M01 · MICRO

Keychain, 4 cm

Matte warm ivory. A pocket-sized reference object. Studied at eye level.

Classic specimen, 15 cm

FLX-M02 · CLASSIC

Workhorse, 15 cm

Warm amber matte. The most-photographed specimen in the series.

Designer edition specimen, 20 cm

FLX-D03 · DESIGNER

Edition, 20 cm

Muted terracotta with a stone-matte hand. The directional object of the plate.

Mega specimen, 50 cm

FLX-M04 · MEGA

Statement, 50 cm

Pale stone grey. Reads as a small object at full-room distance, not a toy.

Architect monument, 1.5 m

FLX-A05 · ARCHITECT

Monument, 1.5 m

Architectural concrete grey. Studied indoors, in plinth light, against a wall.