Floating Words, 2022
Side Table, Part of the ‘Living with Letterforms’ Collection
Acrylic — Steel Fixtures
Side Table, Part of the ‘Living with Letterforms’ Collection
Acrylic — Steel Fixtures
Functioning in ‘compressed’ and ‘expanded’ versions to create in-between spaces to display your books and small objects. Made from a series of etched acrylic sheets and humble steel materials. Layers of ‘floating words’ can be added and removed to shift the storyline. Like books, words and meaning appear with your closeness and attention.
003
Floating Words Transcript
It is always possible to encounter something unknown, to see things that emerge out of intersection, attention and time. In between the space of meaning, in between the layers of material, in between the layers of rhythm. In between the familiar. Appear to disappear. It had to be re-seen, over and over again meaning and sense-making, predemoniately structured by light. temporal, fleeting phenomena. this is an excavation of deep thoughts distilled in form. words are seen on a quieter more intomate scale than objects, but what happens when the pages no longer exist and are replaced with transparency, exposed and floating in mid air. it had to be re-seen. re-seen. re-seen.
Floating Words Transcript
It is always possible to encounter something unknown, to see things that emerge out of intersection, attention and time. In between the space of meaning, in between the layers of material, in between the layers of rhythm. In between the familiar. Appear to disappear. It had to be re-seen, over and over again meaning and sense-making, predemoniately structured by light. temporal, fleeting phenomena. this is an excavation of deep thoughts distilled in form. words are seen on a quieter more intomate scale than objects, but what happens when the pages no longer exist and are replaced with transparency, exposed and floating in mid air. it had to be re-seen. re-seen. re-seen.