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"What claims our attention is the veritable Gulf that separates all bodily Sensations, pleasure or pain, desires and satisfactions-- which are so private that they cannot even be adequately voiced, much less represented in the outside world, and therefore are altogether incapable of being reified-- the mental images which lend themselves so easily and naturally to reification that we neither conceive of making a bed without first having some image, some “idea” of a bed before our inner eye, nor can we imagine a bed without having recourse to some of visual experience of a real thing."Arendt, Hannah, and Margaret Canovan. The Human Condition. University of Chicago Press, 1998. P. 141 . . . . #design #designart #distruptivedesign #criticaldesign #functionalart #functional #sculpture #partition #ladders #ladder #sawdustsculpture #sawdustconstruction #uofinearts #uoart #uocollegeofdesign (at Eugene, Oregon)

Planter structures with soft planter . . . #uoarts #uocollegeofdesign #uo #planter #plantsofinstagram #plants #sawdustconstruction (at Eugene, Oregon)

"The fact is that space itself has the connotation of emptiness; instead of space arising from the living inter-relationship between forms (as a space with 'rhythms'), forms are apprehended, in their relationship to each other, by way of the emptiness which is the formalized sign of space. A room containing space so understood creates a 'natural' effect: we say that it is 'airy'. This is the temptation of emptiness, as when unadorned walls indicate culture and luxury. An objet d'art may seem more precious when it is surrounded by empty space. 'Atmosphere' is thus very often created merely by a formal arrangement which 'personalizes' particular objects through the disposition of empty space." Baudrillard. The System of Objects. . . #lighting #lightingdesign #powertower #electricaltower #sculpture #doesnotlampwell #ilovelamp #interiors #interiordesign #sawdustconstruction #design #furnituredesign #functional #somewhatfunctional #uocollegeofdesign #uofinearts #uoarts (at Eugene, Oregon)

"Design art frequently presents itself in direct competition with a commercial fields from which it borrows - architecture, interior design, graphic design, industrial design - and this runs admirable risk of being expended just like any other consumable object or style, soiling art just as Veblen soiled economics by introducing real-life contingencies. In it's most successful and radical forms, design art pits one human impulse (consumption) against another (preservation) by incorporating a unity in art object that threatens its physical well-being. As good design art plays itself out over time, our desire for beauty and utility coalesce in such a way as to confuse our motivations, making the avoidance of use and the destruction of beauty seem at turns both sensible and perverse." Joe Scanlan. Please, Eat the Daisies. 2001. Design and art. . . . . #designart #artvsdesign #artxdesign #design #sculpture #structure #geometric #somewhatfunctional #functionalart #sawdustconstruction #uocollegeofdesign #uoart #uo #interiors #planterstand #designtrends (at Eugene, Oregon)