[plug your headphones to get the "full monty"]
It's so interesting to work with materials like a Montessori teacher works with kids. Letting them express and develop their own personality.
Come on, I can hear. Materials do not have a personality.
They do not feel. but their nature very well expresses their "wish" to be or become something.
The materiality of thin string and the construction I made with it gave me some clues about life.
It's about networking. A hot issue in our lives!
But when I started this exercise, I wasn't planning to make a networking map.
My starting point was: I am going to connect with a wall. I am going to use threads and sticky dots to connect myself with this wall, using as many lines as needed to feel that we are attached. It will be like growing roots, like planting myself to the wall.
Then, while doing it, the wall started to disappear. The "real" thing was happening in the threads, those individual almost-nothing things.
Instead of representing my attachment to the wall, they started to represent relationships to me. In a broader sense.
What is it that this tactile experience unstrung?
I'd love to hear your line of thoughts on this:
- which of these lessons strapped stronger to you?
- how would your bundle look like?
Do come over to the comments below and let me know (or if you prefer, please email me back). Your words really make a difference.