Cindy’s gaze is focused on functionally designed objects that appear all around us: traffic signs, orange PVC tubes on construction sites or green trash cans along the A2 highway. These industrial objects speak a universal language with their shape and color, but are only designed from their function. Red is danger; yellow means beware! In doing so, the objects create a collective pattern of expectations. These conventions and objects evoke in Cindy, an experience that oscillates from recognition to alienation and back again. She unravels her relationships with the banal in her work by stripping these objects of their status as mass-produced products and by making them, very briefly, unique and special. She sees the world as a theater of objects and considers herself a set designer, who transforms situations into awkward, humorous sets.