The Set Table
It does not mean that every part has to be the same as the others.
I think of a table set with different pieces of tableware.
A plate, a bowl, a glass, a cup.
Different shapes, colors, and materials that, placed together, create something that did not exist before.
The whole does not come from uniformity.
It comes from the relationship between the parts.
Perhaps this is how I look at my own life, too.
For a long time, we are used to separating things.
Work from what we do for ourselves.
The professional part from the private one.
What we know how to do from what interests us.
And yet they are not necessarily parts that need to be kept separate.
They are parts of the same experience.
The artistic process teaches me this as well.
A form can change without losing its identity.
One color can meet another.
A material can transform.
One part can change another without erasing it.
I am not looking for a uniform life.
Rather, I am interested in finding a way for different parts to exist together without losing their own specificity.
As in a composition.
As at a set table.
As in a work of art.
The whole is not necessarily something that already exists.
It is built through relationships.
And perhaps it continues to change precisely as I try to hold it together.
