POINT OF BALANCE
The work deals with thresholds and contradictions: between materials, between the rational and the intuitive, the dynamic and the passive, the functional and the ceremonial.
It involves the constraints brought on by the shifting from a low to a mid-technology; when the round-bottomed vessels we nestled in the sand floors of our caves don’t sit well on the flat tables of our drawing rooms.
A question of stability comes into play with the rocking, hinged, opening, or interlocking pieces that are free to move but don’t unless motivated.
The addressing of these ironies becomes the point of balance…