The Object And Creation
“To fully understand who we are, we should look at our need for things, our dependency on the expressive languages that create our surroundings.”
An object speaks for the inner self that cannot voice its identity and expresses where words cannot fully define. It is both the mirror and the reflection, physical manifestation of the ephemeral and the capricious: map and bread crumb. Beyond the object is the space that contains it, manifesting itself as story book, archive to the lives we lead.
To fully understand who we are, we should look at our need for things, our dependency on the expressive languages that create our surroundings. We live in a material world for a reason, the things we collect give form to our inner hopes and desires, contouring our inner fears, softening the blows of life and living.
“The outside speaks to the inside, whether it’s by seeing or by touch.”
Beauty can be subversive, it has a power over us, we love a sensuous line, a wild flower in a field with it’s scent lofting, pulling us to a better place. The physical touch of an object of beauty teleports, reminding us of our history or slowing the pace of the mind. The outside speaks to the inside, whether it’s by seeing or by touch. This can be found in the grandeur of cathedrals, to the ceramic bowl and spoon. There is a connection between the physical and emotional that cannot be denied, nor should be ignored as design has its place in our everyday. Form can follow function, but it is the beauty of the form that stays with us, subconsciously sitting in the belly of our desires.
“This is us making sense of a world that rarely does.”
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As history has shown us, we have a propensity towards self expression, telling stories by way of images and things, spaces and words. This is us making sense of a world that rarely does. A world within, and without. The expressive languages are our tools of communication, digging deeper to who we believe we are, sifting to discover and explain, resolve and sooth. One merely has to look at the shards of history to see this need. We have created vessels, talismans and cities, etched with stories, images of life once enjoyed and endured. Look at an African fertility figure, the Venus of Willendorf or any historical vessel, and one understands intuitively, as our history of expression runs deep in the blood.
“To create is to manifest an inner longing, a universal question or emotion, giving weight and order to the capricious mind and body.”
Self expression is innate, creativity within all, this is how we are born but not necessarily how we are raised. Regardless of our creative abilities we all possess the desire, we know beauty when we see it, we feel it within, crave its physical touch. To create is to manifest an inner longing, a universal question or emotion, giving weight and order to the capricious mind and body. It is a means to smooth the edges or to sharpen for the purpose of clarity. To create is an expressive language that often digs deep, uplifts and shines a light on the complexities and beauty of life and what it means to live.
“We are in an era of great challenge, sorrow and change, where the facade of history is crumbling and energies explode as fireworks.”
We are in an era of great challenge, sorrow and change, where the facade of history is crumbling and energies explode as fireworks. The future manifests itself through creativity, physical actions, deeds and words. This is nothing new, as we continue to express our physical wants and emotional needs, all tied together by our shared humanity, intimacy and creative visions: forming the vessel that holds tomorrow.
