Colored pencil, graphite, pen on paper, Adobe illustrations
These designs are not meant to be practical or efficient. Their machinery is inert and obvious and slow and thus is a response to contemporary technology’s obsession with productivity. The active engagement I hope my works will bring is in direct dialogue with the passivity brought on by technology. The objects inconvenience the user’s experience in space in order to increase awareness of spatial passivity. The objects, if used, would would require the user to move with slowness and intention, thus reconnecting them with their body. They are ornate machines that ‘waste’ our time. The discomfort that my designs imply contains elements of the absurd and surreal that maintain the objects’ speculative nature.