Trying to write my design statement for D&I publication
Creating harmony, making elements work as a unified image or a system.
Logical – clear to follow, accesible
Easy to understand
A story to go with it. Back up the argument.
Harmonious, balanced.
Ability to organise anything in harmony.
Art and design
Design as a practice emerged from art. The visual aspect, that satisfies the eye and the soul. Inseparability of the two in the design process. Ability to draw parallels and proclaim meaning; symbolise and metaphorise.
The dialogue between thinking and making, self-reflection and self-balance, not going against yourself; following what your body tells you, what your heart tells you, what your brain tells you.
Willing to become a better person. Two parts of me coexisting together. One poetic, the other logic. I am very aware of this relationship within me, the dialogue. A 20th century Russian sociologist, Mikhail Bakhtin, thought that dialogue is the basis of social existence. He also stated that we think dialogically.
Arranging things – a page, a composition, a set, a desk. I am not able to live with just one side of my brain working.
My work is either very logical or quite poetic, and one feeds into the other. There are the two extremes and there's everything in-between. Two sides of me coexist together, just like objects coexist in my set.
I think that a person is a collection of everything they have seen, read, experienced, everywhere they have been, and all the conclusions they have or have not made. One person isn't just one thing; they are many thing at the same time, but from another persons perspective at one moment in time they are just one.
I believe in meaning and that we surround ourselves with meanings. We put them upon objects, people, experiences to explain or excuse our existence. We give meaning to have a reason for our existence.
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