Hurt but alive

I am happy to see people who still have some attachment to a material possession.

It is not about the sentimental attachment where my happiness lays, but on the fact that there still are objects that can pass from hand to hand without disintegrating or being somehow functional.

Most of those objects are coming from a far away time in which the production, purchase and usage were done by people very much aware of the value of each creation. Other, even being given birth not more than 5 years ago, are considered museum pieces due to the not possession of the „suddenly needed“ advances of their successors.

It is clear that materiality has within it the fact of a limited life, a beginning and an end, not only for its composition characteristics, but also in many cases, due to the internal „count-down-clock“ that the same creator considered appropriate to include in order not to make its life longer than the strictly profitable.

Having a look nowadays at the items compositions, we realise that more and more, these are conceived in order not to „last“ longer than the time in between one launch and the appearance of the next update.

Now it is not the right moment to fall upon the impact of the constant left overs that those products leave behind them, not even with all the recycling systems to be created we are able to eliminate them in a minimal percentage; but on the fondness mentioned on the first line of this essay and that consequently to everything said, is disappearing.

I understand that we can get tired of something but i can´t understand why we decide to burry it alive without giving the possibility to it of continuing to give the service it was done for.

Here is where I see the designer´s hand coming to stage. Not only in the shape of the always effective „mince-meat“ recycling we are very much used to, but on a sense linked to the characteristics of each object the way it is, analysing its properties and re-creating it in order to give the same use or a different one from its former one.

If this task is done by adding an ironic and/or poetic twist, the result is at least, a little honest.