This is an Obsession

This will begin as a brain dump. As an attempt to share and moreso to understand what this is all about. For now, it’ll be pretty raw, unedited, off the cuff. This may change, morph, ebb and flow. That’s all fine.

It’s a way for me to start articulating publicly what it is that I’m doing, what I hope to do.

To start, this is an obsession. I think that’s the core of this project. It’s something that I cannot get away from drawing. I keep coming back to it. Eleven lines. Eleven lines in a chair. Eleven lines to make a chair.

This form, this chair that I’ve been drawing; it’s a symbol as much as it is a design. But I do want it to be a chair and it is a chair, a functioning object. That’s part of it too. It’s about lines that exist in my mind, next on paper, and then in space. It’s about translating imaginations into lines into physical things. It’s about that process. To start, it’s about how I imagine and create. Then, once that idea is transferred into a tangible medium, a dialogue can begin with others.

In that way, it’s about the physical objects themselves, too. When an idea is on paper, someone else can see it. It not only holds all of my ideas, but when I share it and you see it, you add your ideas to it as well. Then, that idea can grow and become multidimensional.

A drawing on paper or a three-dimensional object - these physical things carry memory. They’re embedded with histories and packed with ideas. Though silent, they’re intended to speak. But that intention is easily misunderstood; perhaps for the better. This process of mixing intended ideas and experiential memory occurs in an intense way when objects become belongings.

That’s part of this project too: that these things get distributed and passed around; that they get discussed; that people lend their ideas and opinions and imaginations to these drawings-turned-objects; and that they’re held in people’s hands. Then, they take on new life. With each touch and with each word applied, memory and ideas materialize around the object.

And that’s the goal: to make things that pique another’s interest so they can add their own story to it and make these blank objects their own. I’ve been on this journey for a while but I feel like I’m just starting. And I appreciate you being here with me.