How to name a cat?
Bonnie - the black cat that sits on car bonnets.
Sesame - dark grey elegant cat the color of sesame paste.
Tau Hui - anonymous, friendly bob tailed calico cat.
SoyaBean - pretty milk colored cat that seem to have a slanted O for a face.
Tyre Junior- spotted him perched on top of a huge lorry wheel, chilling under the shade.
Tyre Senior - one that was spotted later which resembles junior, but realises its a bigger version of it.
Thimble Cat - the one that is a thimble.
*stray cats changes the landscape of our living environment, they are the other ‘inhabitants’ that live amongst us, slowly moving, chilling, minding their own daily business. Each cat owns several names everytime a strange person gives the same cat a new name. Cats create another layer in our otherwise humanly dimension. Cats only need to communicate with one syllable : ” m e o w ” .
Finally got our hands on our favourite book of all time (although not the original pelican version). Anyone who is a designer or not, should read this.
“Paul Scheerbart’s futuristic novel of 1914, ‘The Gray Cloth and Ten Percent White, mediates on the rise of glass architecture, positing a future in which the modernist fantasy of total design has reached its apotheosis. The story’s protagonist, architect Edgar Krug, circumnavigates the globe with his wife, Clara, constructing wildly varied and vibrantly colored glass buildings wherever he goes: a high-rise exhibition and concert hall in Chicago, a retirement complex for pilots in Fiji, a museum of ancient weapons in Malta. To maximise the impact of the these colorful buildings, Krug demands that his wife wear only gray clothes containing ten percent white. Her compliance has the effect the architect desires, revealing the buildings’ splendor by contrast…..”
- Henry Urbach
” i see potential in the spectator - in the receiver, the reader, the participator, the viewer, the user….”
“I….regard museums….as spaces where one steps even deeper into society, from where one can scrutinise society…”
- Olafur Eliasson