There’s a latent genius in the ordinary objects so familiar, we no longer see them for what they are. Made to Talk re-seats us in the familiar while playfully re-orienting our attention to a new material grafted onto an existing typology.

Poetic and subdued, Reflection Plane is a hushed arrangement of oak and steel. A simple intervention, inspired by the Mono-Ha movement gives rise to moments of observation and contemplation; a reduction that celebrates the simple joy of materials themselves.

I don’t know if we can stop where we are headed any more than it is possible to get off a rollercoaster mid-ride. We’re going too fast, it’s too loud, plus, there’s wind in our hair.

Encounter attunes us to the most straightforward connections upon which our complex world depends and brings into focus the con- ductive and alchemical allure of graphite. Light and industrial offcuts form a new composition with each interaction.

2023

haptic

Haptic offers a site from which to explore the distilled poetics of spontaneous composition designed as an interactive desktop.