Complexity

Complexity has a tendency to overshadow our everyday, even the simplest of tasks. Symptomatic of a fever that flairs, this is life, our current condition.

Within complexity there are pockets of simple deeds, beauty tended and actions taken. All in gesture of a better balance, a clearer present and a future forward.

“Lady Justice unbalanced.”

It is however complexity that is having its way, contradicting basic morality, fusing itself with an underbelly better left dying. A complex simplicity that is disorienting and infuriates, leaving society divided. Lady Justice unbalanced.

There are no mixing of words here. See it for what it is, a wound unbound. No clear solution but to push, eyes open, determined. Common decency is innate as fight or flight , we know this and simplicity will find this.

My simplicity is to favor less words and open space. Dig deeper, act further and follow my path of truest intentions.

Truth

Moving forward does not require the preciseness of plan.

It does however ask of faith, not knowing what’s to come is a necessary marker of change.

It is this journey that tells us who we are, exposes lies and truths.

But it is truth that hurts the most as it pulls at our egos.

Truth provides for silence and softens the inner rattle.

Together they are our contemporary alchemy.

Clarity in the noise of lies.

Reflection

“Morphing to the future that has wings.”

We have found ourselves in a place of reflection and action, identity and doing. An act of digging out and digging paths. Saying who we are and being who we are. Morphing to the future that has wings.

Struggle continues to be what we do, as change is to struggle, bud to bloom. This is what we do as human kind, creatures on a changing planet whirling in unknown space. It is our given, what we reflect on and act against as we push forward, metaphors of pitchforks and fire.

BIG Architecture “ORB” at Burning Man

However, our reflection has turned more outward showing the ills before us, shining light onto the blinded, self afflicted and myopic. Under the psychologists lens it is telling, burning under the bright light of exposure and truths.

“Showing the way and the way that isn’t. Past, present and future.”

This act of reflection is as crystal, fracturing light onto surfaces, lives and bodies. Showing the way and the way that isn’t. Past, present and future.

It is this action, this clear reflection that will move us forward and keep us forward, struggling as we do, whirling as we must.

Intention

Meaning is something I often work through in my mind these days, our era of troubled politics and life as we know it. The intent of all that I do resurfaces, a needed airing out as laundry on a line.

Carl Barnett Design/Studio

There are many ways to approach a creative arena style wise, but it is the why that clarifies intention. This is what often circles within my mind, the why before the what, especially now, as I dig up and bury resolution.

John Sheppard Studio

“This is my intention, my why.”

There is a bigger picture that most excites me, the utility of design. What design can do. The inspiration of the creative mind, making and doing. This is what raises my passion. Enfolding the makers into an interior space creates a lasting impact, a tapping into emotion, evoking thought and inspiring better living. It is through the support of the creative arenas within a simplified space that I hope to evoke meaning and facilitate nourishment for mind and body. This is my intention, my why.

Kate Casey of Peg Woodworking

“A creative resolution of utility and passion.”

It is this layering within space that I intend a counter to our everyday. To ease and evoke, inspire and to be inspired. This is what the creative mind can do, what our making does. It is this I intend, what gives me reason. To offer a resolve, a small gesture if only for a moment. A creative resolution of utility and passion.

Carl Barnett Design/Studio

Origami Unfolding

When I was a child I constantly played with Lincoln Logs and Legos and drawing wild architectural renderings. All this fed my desire to be an architect. Growing older I spent my allowance on Architectural Digest, designing my bedroom and rearranging furniture in our family home, much to my father’s shagrin. All the while drawing portraits and landscapes, excelling in all my art and drafting classes. I dreamt of being an artist in NYC, finally choosing an extensive study in the arts. A path I never regret.

Carl Barnett Design/Studio

It’s interesting how life shows itself, complex and simple from a distance. And yet, as we know very little is simple, only simplified at best, boiled down to bone, the structures upon which life is layered.

Charline von Heyl “Dub”

At this time in my life I am most interested in the uncomplicated. The clarity of honesty, purity of intent, words and materials. Life as we know it has a complexity only an architect can try to render and an artist can continue to try and express. This is the calumniation I try to work within to better understand and temper our current era. It is through design that I layer all that I have explored in my years of living. My blood is full of memory, my bone solidified by continued desire, my mind wanders through the realm of future possibilities. At this point, my life is as origami unfolding, un-creasing back to the simplified sheet of pure white paper. Time is not linear, it moves backward to unveil the new.

ODA Archtiecture NYC

I have a passion for all that I do. For politics in its fight for human rights. For family lost and family gained. A passion for creating the future positive, an action I take with a strong stance. I have a curious mind and a desire of persistence. This is what time has built, a foundation to build upon. A structure of creative know-how and romantic wonder and will. It is this that my life has given me and what I am giving to life.

Carl Barnett Design/Studio