cycles

So as I continue to move through my ideas I often stop to think, build a chair sculpture and scribble down a few ideas.

Last night I did just that. 

Starting with one failed attempt at making the same old chair sculpture, I simply stacked one chair after another in a rhythmic form that began to create a threshold around the main door of our studio space. By the time I had stacked all 85 chairs, I had come to a realization; it is not the sculpture that is important to me, it is the act of using my hands and my mind to solve spatial/geometrical/compositional/social-behavioral/architectural problems that is indefinitely fascinating to me. From this point onward, I was able to sit down and produce the following abstract.

A brief description[for the above image] 

1. In trying to find a UNIVERSAL SYMBOL that has the same meaning in every culture and every geographic location, I realized that the DIAGRAM is a capable of bearing this very idea within the design world. 

2. I begin to break down the diagram as a representation of the process of ANALYZING DATA. In today's age of information, all of our data is stored DIGITALLY. 

3. The New Oxford American Dictionary defines DIGITAL |ˈdijitl| of or relating to a finger or fingers. 

4. Fingers, or digits are attached to these things [HANDS] that are at the root of all forms of creation or design known to man. 

(please see below diagram for more info)