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wood, steel, nailcare products and accessories, instructions for pedicures and manicures / 96"x54"x54"
As a case study for another spatial practice study, the Metaproject (see below), I constructed a floor unit that incorporated nail care equipment with instruction for D.I.Y. manicures and pedicures. The Nail Care Station included a table, stools, cabinets filled with manicure and pedicure supplies, a transparent waste bin, and a water tank. All of these items collapse into the 3.5-inch interior space of the wall.
Seth Dazey, a young nomad, craftsman, communitarian and dear friend designed and fabricated the pair of stools that accompanied the Nail Care Station and assisted the construction of the entire piece.
| studies for FLOORS |
2006 |
The Metaproject, a study in semi-utopian spatial practice, allowed me to envision the possibility of facilitating incidental self-sufficient communities, nomadic settlements, and the informal economies that would necessarily accompany them. In the egomaniacal utopian vision I was conceiving an inversion of the contemporary condition where private and privatized space is the status quo existed in small communities temporarily inhabiting empty buildings. Instead public space and public life was the norm, and private spaces were kept to a minimum. Floors would therefore provide the majority of space defining apparatuses. This community would need its basic needs taken care of, so programs were introduced into some of the floor modules. Floors could incorporate a wide range range of furniture functions such as desks, chairs, dining tables, game stations, as well as socially oriented music making, cooking and hygiene facilitation.
Scale models, digital models, and full-scale mock-ups were made, including a couch made of found materials. Dimensions and materials vary.
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