Is it a pair of shoes if you can’t walk in it?
Is it a pair of gloves if you can’t move your fingers in it?
Is a thing still a thing even if it doesn’t do what it is supposed to do?
Will everyone here today say yes to those questions? Probably. And I would too.
From there, I guess the questions I am asking myself are these:
——Form follows function, so what should my form be if I am functionless?
——What if I take the form of something functional but I myself am, for the lack of— but
also not knowing— a better term, useless?
I don’t try to answer those questions for I think the answers are subjective. But I am
interested in seeing people’s reactions to objects to which these questions can be
applied to.
I’m also interested in “breaking-down”— the melting of ice, drying of alcohol or water,
softening of hardened plaster in water,… The better phrase is probably something along
the line of “the transformation between states of thing(s)” but that is just ways too long.
I want to see how objects are affected by the environment they are in and vice versa.
That process can take seconds or centuries to take place, so in the interest of time, I am
focusing on ones that take place quickly then moving up.
For the first project, I am adhering to the exploration of the abovementioned through
making a pair of gloves with paper towels and napkins.