“I often feel I am trapped inside someone else’s imagination, and I must engage my own imagination in order to break free” (18)
- Q: Have you felt trapped inside of someone else’s imagination? How have you broken free?
Design is just a creative discipline that blends art and poetry, which is based on imagination.
Art + Poetry + Design, the most intuitive symptom is buying something out of impulse. When we buy something, in many cases, we are not paying for the function, but for”love at first sight” for that thing, even without any explainable reasons. Because “the beauty of things” touches me, surprises me, delights me, and resonates with me. The moment I see it, a germ called Poetry infects me, allowing me to develop an emotional connection to the object for a short period of time, being trapped in the poetic world the designer depicts. This is a feeling that transcends functions, being an indescribable fate.
This is also the meaning of carrying art and poetry into industrial design.
Using an item that can be bought and owned as a carrier, redefine the surrounding space, let us briefly transcend our daily life, and pull us into a dimension full of imagination and beauty. At that moment, we shortly came into contact with the essence of human nature, looked at ourselves from the inside, made ourselves higher than the level of material existence, and achieved spiritual fulfillment.
With the help of design products, it is a blessing to indulge in the beauty of the designer’s imagination, without any reasons or necessities to escape.
The architect Frank Lloyd Wright once said: “Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.” In some way what you are writing about aligns with this sentiment. I am wondering what relationship “desire” has in this equation. Where does the desire to acquire/own something come from? What implications, motivations, and powers might be at play?