During my studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, I became fascinated with ‘found objects’. Among other things I found in the street, I came across three types of plastic forks used to eat potato fries. The forks had various colors. The most numerous type showed a circle just above the three prongs and a number in the stem. Curiously, there was no correlation between number and colour. The first work of a deconstructed fork, made early September 2001, obtained the number 109. The two works produced shortly after the destruction of the World Trade Center both received the number 911.