BY MAKING...More than just a place to sit

What a wonderful year it was, just before settling into the holiday season spending time with family and friends my exhibition titled 'BY MAKING...More than just a place to sit' was held at Granderson Lab -a project by Alice Yard.

The show featured three projects I have developed over the last 2-3 years, Peera, Dishout and most recently Outin.

 

Photography: Work by Damian Libert. People by Kibwe Brathwaite

Mt Irvine Jazz on the Beach 2012

These are some images from the making of the Mt Irvine Jazz on the beach spacial and set design for 2012.

 

 

 

first 4Photos by Kibwe Brathwaite.

DISH OUT

Extensions of you...
For the act of serving yourself and or others.

DISH OUT is a set of salad servers. One set has long handles the
other short handles that fit neatly in your hands.

This new work was shown in the Dominican Republic at
Design Caribbean, September 1-4, 2011.


Material- Stainless Steel and Mahogany.

photo by Damian Libert.

Peera... more than a place to sit

Peera is a reinterpretation of the familiar.

You can sit on it, carry things in it... maybe tools,
drinks or whatever you desire.


This project further investigates the idea of convergence, the utilization of different modes of making.

It is a culmination of many moments where a Designer engages with an Architect to design and build...not a building but the architecture of a small object. Collaborating with Sean Leonard over the last year has brought up questions of multiplicity...the nature of Alice Yard forces one to consider improvisation and demands a thing to have many purposes (a series of simple metal chairs is used for seating today, tomorrow they are shelves for displaying items).

Ideas about rethinking and remaking the familiar, challenging the way we see ourselves and the things we have grown up with. Christopher Cozier has appropriated the peera bench in a series he titles "little gestures", while he sees it for its symbolic value, this object for me is a design investigation.

Peera,Christopher Cozier, Draconian Switch, Town, Alice Yard is part of the Global Africa Project currently on show at the Museum of Arts and Design NY.
November 17th 2010 - May 15th 2011

Peera Prototype

Photo by Damian Libert

Looking at You

There is much to see and I am not talking about coconut trees swaying in the breeze.

Think about your world, what really catches your eye. Look, look and look again, cause somewhere there…

Lies A Beautiful Idea.

How Time Tells

My father, grandfather and great uncle all opened workshops specializing in metal, wood and steel respectively. The impact this has had on me has only become evident in the last ten years.
I admit, I never wanted to do dirty work.

These influences have pushed me to think and work beyond the printed page.

To get my hands dirty.

photo by Damian Libert

Playing a Part

When I think of work, design work, that is. I think about the convergence of parts, beyond the parts of a thing are the contributions made by people.

It can be a question
It can be a suggestion
It can be an action
It can be a feeling

Objects carry with them... all of these things.