Tuesday, June 12, 2007

re TV


A homeless man found a TV set that had been discarded along along a sidestreet. He knew exactly what to do with it. Decisive action.

Re Nice "E"


The search for a perfect letterform often leads to the most beautiful kind of failure.
Abandoned signage does not require that the meaning must also be abandoned.

Thursday, June 7, 2007

re Not Empty


The problem of space and storage and access is universal and ancient. Is the idea of "random structure" an oxymoron? The unstructured aesthetic.

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

re Empty


The space between buildings is often more interesting than the buildings. Things can be added but seldom does anything improve on the beauty of the empty space.

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

re Stone Sailboat

What a fine boat. It was made by a guy who loves to stack rocks that are precariously balanced one on another. This sailboat is life size and bigger than life at the same time.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

re Water Music


Mixing the real world with musical notation has its own set of implications. Do the notes have a physical existence? The reflection in the water and the ripples confirm something that is contradictory. But it is rather early in the morning at Greenlake.

Re Controlling Chance


The interplay between chance and order keeps us guessing. Why the carefully broken plate? Why the numbers? Just waiting for the mapping that will make it a directory for a home page.