Time

Reaching
For the future
From the past

Harmony between functions is reconcilable with the individual artistic spirit.

“Art is self-creation, not imitation.” – Walter Gropius

Differential
Concrete stain
Aging

In this encounter, the object transcends its physical characteristics and becomes a lived experience.

“An event is the outcome of the past, so far as the past is relevant to the present. It is also the pregnant mother of the future” – Alfred North Whitehead

Bailey’s
Lunch
Breakfast

The tangible and the familiar are the ground on which experience derives.

“The traces left behind by the things of the past… are like fallen leaves, which the wind of history carries with it.” – Walter Benjamin

In the sticks
Much a tale
Of who you ask

Over this time period individuals put much effort into recreation.

“Croquet is a very old game, widely known and practised in France since the XI century under the name of ‘jeu de mail’. Borrowed by the British around 1300, it was modified over the centuries: the Scots made golf out of it, the Irish turned it into croquet.” – Anthoine Ravez

Convex security
Top of the pops
Exit stage

Til we meet again, may God bless you. Adios.

“…the image is one thing and the human being is another…it’s very hard to live up to an image. “ – Elvis Presley

Patent medicine
Temperance drink
Hobble-skirt design

The familiar fluted bottle is so curvy it once was called the “Mae West” bottle.

“The perfect liquid wrapper.” – Raymond Loewy

Disobey rules
Power to punish
Practical need

Imperfect laws are established to maintain order and promote social order.

“Justice is an artificial virtue, the invention of men, and founded entirely on the interests of society.” – David Hume

Present moment
Lived experience
Embodied subjectivity

Situated in time and space, we are not disembodied consciousnesses floating above the world.

“Time is not a thing, but a process.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Rocolene
Eveready
Raytheon

A shelf functions as a portal to another domain.

“A place for everything, and everything in its place.” – Benjamin Franklin

Life force
Constantly evolving
Physical manifestation

The past is not fixed and immutable, but rather is constantly being recreated in the present moment.

“The past is not behind us, it is within us, it is the present becoming.” – Henri Bergson