Something Obtuse?
Something valuable?
Something worth money?
Experience?
Memories?
Love?
Is it something that you would never rid yourself of? The object or memory you hold dearest at night in your arms...
{this is a competition to change mere garbage into a treasure}
I started with history. Brought nature into the mix. Threw in some spices. Stirred well. Finally, I received a toy. The history of "garbage" is much greater and stronger than you first imagine. These are items&objects that meant something to someone during sometime. The history may have been from the: 90's 80's 70's 60's 50's 40's 30's or possibly the 20's.
I need to find what makes history, garbage and treasure mix.
What would a wee child care for?
When this child is an elder would he have kept something precious?
The experience of the purest mind brings to light something vast in mankind--something wholesome and powerful. We find true love in treasures. These may be something small and meaningless or something grand and expensive. But in truth it is something you care to keep for all eternity. Something that only your beloved may inherit.
An ancient toy for my childhood--shipped neatly in a old shipping crate--delivered with history of man and animal. Drudged-up through past materials crafted in a new dawn in an ancient style. This is precious to me--this is a treasure. The experience of the organic wood shaped effigy nicely fitting the hand. A packing crate brazened with the luxuries of the 20's and style of the 1890's. This items is an antiquary object of sorts. Something that I may be myself.
While it fits me, my experience, my metaphor--it also harbors 'solid craft' and well refined skill. It is something that can be loved, bought or gifted. It is a treasure.
Something Obtuse? Yes
It is a skillful endeavor to find the metaphor of man. Of myself in fact. I tried to work towards something that really speaks of my values and ideals in design. How so? Through recreation of past into present. Through my love of the folklore, archaeology and traditional toys. Through skillful wood crafting. Through imagination and romanticism. Through elegance and simplicity. Through the use of experience to describe the nature of an object--the phenomenological connection to the object. Through the use of skill most of all. It is not simply an object but a manifestation of my design, my 'brain' & my subconscious.
All object here crafted from recycled materials - plywood, cherrywood, copper wire, printer ribbon, springs, screws, TV clamp, glass, rusty nails & old varnish.
