I am thinking: is there a place designed for people to be quietly thinking, a place to watch time running, a meditation space?
I found sth on the Internet and quoted them. "meditation has been laid stress upon by all religions. The meditative state of mind is declared by the Yogis to be the highest state in which the mind exists. When the mind is studying the external object, it gets identified with it, loses itself. To use the simile of the old Indian philosopher: the soul of man is like a piece of crystal, but it takes the colour of whatever is near it. Whatever the soul touches ... it has to take its colour. That is the difficulty. That constitutes the bondage." "..在印度教徒看来,任何神灵降附的东西都是可崇拜并会带来功德的,因而一幅画像、一尊雕像、草木石头都可以成为偶像。 " David Lynch is always my inspiration. He talked about meditation and creativity in his book "catching the big fish".
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This is a picture I took a month ago when I was in Berlin. It is from one of the many bricks of the memorial church(Gedächtniskirche). The original church on the site was built in the 1890s. It was badly damaged in a bombing raid during the world war two. The damaged part was not fixed like the original building. Instead people in Berlin insisted to keep the damaged look as a reminder of that history. They build memorial hall beside the church using pieces of glass which makes people relate to the pieces of the bomb or the pieces of faith left in humanism after the war. A french artist made these beautiful glass pieces and reorganize them in the shape of sqaure. It made me think about the designer's role today at the atomosphre of globalization and diversity. We are like individual atoms in this emptiness. Should we design to solve problems or is there really so many problems to solve? Is mass production or functionalism still the right way of making objects today? Does the world really need another chair for the purpose of sitting? Maybe functionalism is not the perfect answer today. Designer need to pick up the pieces we have lost and rebuild something for our soul. That means, to cure, to calm, to lead and to take responsibility. Little things always inspire me.
Some mumbling words, a rhyming poem, some silly little songs. I believe the one true thing that lives in your memory is the details you think you are going to forget. They seem so meaningless and forgettable. But when you look back, all things are soaked in blurry except the little thing you really noticed. They are the evidence that you ever truely lived, the witness of every risk you take, every mistake you have made. I am crazy about collecting them, not only mine but others too. Illusions. Voices. Dreams. Gestures. Little chats. Mid-night snacks. Meditations. A beatiful scene. A smooth curve. So I try to put every emotion in my design. The combination of form and function make the design alive. Design for every little thing you try and try not to remember. Design for every ordinary one. Design for everyday life. |