Furnishing Utopia: Drawings Upon Framework
2019
Modernist designers concerned themselves with using mass production and industry to solve old problems in new ways -- a hallmark of the movement. Often they embraced industrial techniques that are viable only when multiples are made.
My own work often involves systems of objects produced in quantity, and, perhaps not coincidentally, my approach to drawing is similar. I sketch details and shapes repetitively in order to convince myself an idea is valid. It’s a personal approach that is largely about the process and the result is often incomprehensible to others (but invaluable to me).
This embrace of and enjoyment of repetition is my “framework” for Furnishing Utopia 4.0. The drawings shown here explore the idea of repetition--a major commonality between my process and modernism. The same shape is drawn over and over, revealing small differences between things intended to be identical. This struggle for consistency and the reconciliation of small variations parallels my experiences with producing real objects - it’s hard to make multipleobjects truly identical.
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