Dormant objects
I began by looking at objects and the manner that when you removed their data you are left with a dormant object. It is like a language with no use but with great potential. When 1+1=11 you are left with a number that has no use. Therefore, the idea where an object is removed of its language was explored. It was to make the user look at these objects in a new way. Previously, a kettle is seen as an object that gives us a means of obtaining a cup of tea. By cutting it in half it loses its language and we are left with an object purely for viewing. The kettle also has another quality which is its lack of permanence. The kettle is an object of planned obsolescence and is designed to last a short while. However, by casting it in stone it gave a new aspect of permanence to the kettle which I found interesting. The book which Neil gave me looked at how there are objects that are already given a function that we do not necessarily understand. Similar to me not understanding other languages. With these objects new uses were come up with. My project is not about that, but rather it looks into how when an object is made dormant (in other words without means of being used) what happens to the object. It dawned on me that the object becomes more reliant on its aesthetic. Therefore, moving on from the kettle the machine seemed an obvious place of interest. Machine is made purely for efficiency in use rather than aesthetic. The motor is an ideal example of this. I thought would it be great to put this object of mechanism into a place of viewing. It relates to when Le Corbusier photographed industrial objects in a manner that compared them to nature. I found the media of wallpaper a perfect place to display an object as it would be here where it is unavoidable to not to look at the pattern. It was from here where I focused on making wallpaper from the form of the motor. The wallpaper makes the motor dormant as it has no use on the paper apart to be viewed visually.
By making an object dormant it takes the object a step backwards in the process leaving the object at a stage of potential rather than of use.
Objects that give.
If the giving element is taken away the objects become dormant. I have used concrete to set the kettle into to make the pieces seem fossilised and museum like. It helps the objects become artefacts in the traditional sense. I have cast extended the idea of casting the objects into stone to actually casting the object out of stone. The kettles sunk into the concrete reminds me of the sword and the stone where the object of great power and potential lays dormant in the rock.
I began by looking at objects and the manner that when you removed their data you are left with a dormant object. It is like a language with no use but with great potential. When 1+1=11 you are left with a number that has no use. Therefore, the idea where an object is removed of its language was explored. It was to make the user look at these objects in a new way. Previously, a kettle is seen as an object that gives us a means of obtaining a cup of tea. By cutting it in half it loses its language and we are left with an object purely for viewing. The kettle also has another quality which is its lack of permanence. The kettle is an object of planned obsolescence and is designed to last a short while. However, by casting it in stone it gave a new aspect of permanence to the kettle which I found interesting. The book which Neil gave me looked at how there are objects that are already given a function that we do not necessarily understand. Similar to me not understanding other languages. With these objects new uses were come up with. My project is not about that, but rather it looks into how when an object is made dormant (in other words without means of being used) what happens to the object. It dawned on me that the object becomes more reliant on its aesthetic. Therefore, moving on from the kettle the machine seemed an obvious place of interest. Machine is made purely for efficiency in use rather than aesthetic. The motor is an ideal example of this. I thought would it be great to put this object of mechanism into a place of viewing. It relates to when Le Corbusier photographed industrial objects in a manner that compared them to nature. I found the media of wallpaper a perfect place to display an object as it would be here where it is unavoidable to not to look at the pattern. It was from here where I focused on making wallpaper from the form of the motor. The wallpaper makes the motor dormant as it has no use on the paper apart to be viewed visually.
By making an object dormant it takes the object a step backwards in the process leaving the object at a stage of potential rather than of use.
Objects that give.
If the giving element is taken away the objects become dormant. I have used concrete to set the kettle into to make the pieces seem fossilised and museum like. It helps the objects become artefacts in the traditional sense. I have cast extended the idea of casting the objects into stone to actually casting the object out of stone. The kettles sunk into the concrete reminds me of the sword and the stone where the object of great power and potential lays dormant in the rock.
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