Spatial Design: Learning to fail : infinite world and labyrinth

October 28, 2005

Learning to fail : infinite world and labyrinth

Coming from my engineering world, even if before that (and to some extend during)I was a painter, I've been influenced by the straight path through problems that is taught in engineering schools.
I planned to build a sphere for the assignment this week. The sphere was to be made of umbrellas' skeleton and was supposed to be floor high.
Well, I failed. I wanted to much, too fast. I lost myself into my own ideas about this project. I didn't spend enough time exposing myself to other ideas, the history of Umbrellas. The plasticity of the result, not the technicality.
The labyrinth aspect of it all is the fact that I isolated myself into a small set of elements that I was combining in infinite ways, going nowhere, feeling lost.
The only issue to my attitude was to get out of the non-creative labyrinth I set for myself. I admit that there was nothing more to do to fix the project. I have to start over from scratch. Failing as an exit. Good to reset the ego and move forward.

Posted by Duc, Thomas at October 28, 2005 02:25 AM