@july

I've been thinking about the kind of things I want to make I want to make things that are tactile but evokes memory. What does that mean? What I mean by that is that you can touch it and you can feel it and remember touching it somewhere at sometime. What we can touch, what we do, for me it often evokes= memories. We compare them to memories. Your favorite toy that you used to bring to bed as a touch and how soft it was. The feeling of a t-shirt the first time you wore it after you bought it. Shoes that fit just right, because you've used them for a while. Tactileness - is a sort of memory. When I touch objects, I love objects that remind me of a feeling of touching, it transports me through time to places and memories of long ago. Sometimes memories of the future, like this works in a place that doesn't even feel that out of place, but its never been there. This feeling of remembering, both of the past or the future gives the object a sort of 'rightness' in its existence. Almost like a justification of its existence that goes beyond simple utility, which of course it should serve utility too (nothing wrong with art tho) - but that feeling underneath should hum like a gentle ocean crashing over and over again in the distance.

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