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What use has a chocolate teapot?
The form of an object; a chair, a cup, a sign, dictates its function. In particular, public signs that tell us what direction to travel in, where we are and what we are to do are omnipresent and carriers of vital information. If these objects are interrupted in some way, their form warped or changed, they cease to function in a useful way. How would this affect our busy lives? Signs, despite their obvious use, also control; leading us through our days - the endless cycle of work, rest and play that is hard to escape.
This body of work is intended as a reminder to stop once in a while and just 'be'. To take notice of our own individuality as important and to highlight the understandable difficulty we have in 'keeping up' with the pace and increasingly unrealistic expectations placed on the modern human by society.
I have subverted a variety of communicative forms; from poetry, morse code, words, text and arrows as carriers of 'mis-information', when considered under the rule 'form dictates function', but with an oblique view they offer directions that relate to our inner, rather than our physical/outer destination.
What use has a chocolate teapot?
The form of an object; a chair, a cup, a sign, dictates its function. In particular, public signs that tell us what direction to travel in, where we are and what we are to do are omnipresent and carriers of vital information. If these objects are interrupted in some way, their form warped or changed, they cease to function in a useful way. How would this affect our busy lives? Signs, despite their obvious use, also control; leading us through our days - the endless cycle of work, rest and play that is hard to escape.
This body of work is intended as a reminder to stop once in a while and just 'be'. To take notice of our own individuality as important and to highlight the understandable difficulty we have in 'keeping up' with the pace and increasingly unrealistic expectations placed on the modern human by society.
I have subverted a variety of communicative forms; from poetry, morse code, words, text and arrows as carriers of 'mis-information', when considered under the rule 'form dictates function', but with an oblique view they offer directions that relate to our inner, rather than our physical/outer destination.