Faber - Modern Stone Ware
We have lots of tools in our daily life and normally use them in the usual way for intended purposes. Sometimes, however, we also use them in a different way. For example, we can use a computer mouse for holding a paper. It may be not the original purpose of the mouse. But in this situation, it does not seem so abnormal. The reason why it is not that much weird, I think, we already know that the mouse's shape and weights are fit for holding paper pieces.
This is not all. I have faced similar situation in daily life so much.
After all, I began to wonder where current tool shapes came from and how people can use tools instinctually depending on their shapes.
To find the answer, I traced back to the primitive ages that human being had started to use raw materials or natural objects for the first time.
One day, I saw a man who put his mouse on a paper piece before he left his seat. This situation raised doubts about that kind of behavior. Why does he do that? The mouse is not for holding sheets of paper, but why? I really wondered why people use products with unintended ways; it is the reason why I started this project. I obtained samples by breaking plaster and made them modern by using geometric shapes. They are made of metal for proper weights and designed to match ordinary desk wares.
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe illustrator, Rhinoceros 5.0, Key shot 6.
In prehistoric time, natural objects, such as leaves, bones, stones, and claws of animal, would have been used without any particular process. Over time, human have gradually made more sophisticated tools and finally they started to look like we see today. In this respect, most of the artificial tools have been inspired by the nature. So the initial process of my project was to make some tool forms similar to the natural things. And next, I started to especially focus on stones in that the stoneware is a turning point in human history.
I wanted to tell the story about products and human behaviors through this project and wanted to observe other people using my modern stoneware. This project was very meaningful for me because many people sympathized with me through this work.
Shapes determine human behavior.
