Kristina Lewis
Wielded by our hands in daily tasks, utilitarian objects
become extensions of our bodies, prosthetics in the
service of our desires. Because they can’t act on their
own, we fold, compress, hide and stack them. We
economize, and then use them unconsciously.
If objects are generally used as a way of extending my
body into the world, how would they act without my
constant imposition on them? Once separate from my
body, how would they extend themselves?
To begin this inquiry, I deactivate the use-value link that
makes objects into tools for me. Once stripped of their
“usefulness,” I ask, “how do these objects or materials
grow, now that they have lost their original function?”
I imagine that the resulting components have their
own bodies and through accumulation are intent upon
working together to grow an even larger body. As in
nature, where specific mathematical principles provide
structure while allowing countless variations, I create
strict boundaries that insure a pattern, but within which
the outcome is ultimately unknown.
Through this process, I suspend my everyday experience
with inanimate things in order to study the possibility
of their animation.
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