You cannot sit and wait for progress. Creating impulsively and reacting on the outcomes is a way to make the world increasingly better. It’s about being naïve at the right times and trying to be smart at others, having the guts to do so, despite high expectations and need for security.
To be quite honest, the best part of the whole experience is the day after the vibrant opening of the exhibition, back at the office working on a new product. Once more it becomes clear how impulses and fun can finally have their result in a functional piece of furniture. The different exhibitions are an underlining of Studio Bertjan Pot's diverse worlds. Nevertheless there is no preference for one or the other. Somewhere in the middle feels good, we're doing well.
Progress (2011) by Bertjan Pot
Sheila Hicks: 50 Years
Institute of Contemporary Art
Philadelphia
March 24 – August 7, 2011
"I made these neckties in a manner idiosyncratic to a tailor named H.A. Otter. It took me a number tries to understand his method of making a tie, which is practical, efficient, and elegant. His ties were not cut on the bias, they were cut with the weft (across the fabric's width), as are mine. The most interesting thing I discovered in the process of making them was that the tie's flare was actually a function of its manufacture."
by/buy: J.A. Christensen, Maker
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#7— today, never position an extension ladder over a Navajo saddle blanket on a wooden polished floor, the ladder slides out, you fall and stupid shit happens to your body (second successful attempt to reposition shoulder back in place).
Dislocator/Discography by R4TH
Jack Lenor Larsen's apartment in Murray Hill. Photographs by Jeffrey Hirsch for the NY Social Diary. Also: Eva Zeisel and Gaetano Pesce.
Florence Edenshaw Davidson
Primrose Adams
Isabel Rorick*
*My Mother's cousin's wife.
