Exploring with a Chair
I have investigated furniture and how they function.
I believe that function has a lot to do with how we perceive them.
Perceive by how we see them.
Perceive by what we call them, their name.
What we see and its name makes us understand.
Understand how it functions.
We see, we don’t have to use it.
I build furniture that is the other way around.
I have to use it to understand.
Understand how it functions.
Nor name or how it looks decides that.
It all begins with a thought.
A thought and a chair.
The thought is a seed that grows, the chair is the tool to understand the thoughts.
I pick it apart and build it together, build it apart and pick it together.
The chair and the thoughts.
With themselves and with each other.
I understand something, I understand nothing.
It is confusing.
I look at it all and understand something again.
Understand that small differences makes big difference.
Understand how clear the chair is.
Understand how unclear the others are.
Understand that I don’t understand them by how they look.
Understand that I don’t understand them by their name.
They are confusing.
Not at all like the chair.
Rather like something else, something to explore.