explore questions of:
when function is superseded by appearance, what occurs? What does it become, how is its power as a functional object destroyed? how is its status lowered or raised by its removal from the realm of function to realm of idea/abstraction?
what is its function now? Do we discover or rediscover our environment, do we become more aware of the everyday fantastic?
How does an object become a subject? A prior three dimensional thing that takes up space to a two-dimensional thing whose meaning inhabits human consciousness more than physical space?
What does this say about the relationship of fantasy and the outside world, is fantasy the stage or the audience?
How does comparison work to reflect fantasy and reality, to reduce or enlarge one or the other?
“What face would you like to buy today?”
Relation to conflicts of art and graphic design: art which uses material consideration VERSUS material which utilizes artistic sentiment to obtain more material …
How does all this act like an exponential mirror?
I am product and provocateur of society
If electricity is literal gateway to first world power what does its different faceplates as a visual symbol mean to others? Wat does its recognition in viewer’s speech tell us about our own perception? What we take for granted in our visual environments?