A Moment of Stay

To map the future is to navigate todays narrative, measuring the distance between deeds done and resolve. The cause and effect of daily actions and words spoken are ripples outward and waves forward, a natural order of living: how we live now and how we soon will live. This is no story book tale but fact in plain sight, though it seems we may have taken a blind’s eye.

“It is at this point a time of doing and inspiring: stacking the logs to build the dam.”

There is no need to go into details of our contemporary challenges (we know them). Our biggest concern should not be what we know, but what we know to do. The facts are there, we cannot go around them any longer, resolve is the paramount knowledge here. It is at this point a time of doing and inspiring: stacking the logs to build the dam.

Carl Barnett Design/Studio

How we live goes beyond the things we buy, again, we know. Empathy is something that affects our environment as are the materials we use in daily routines. Both are plinths to building a way of life and future. How we feel is equal to how we live within the material world.

“Who we are and where we’re going.”

This is not a plea for minimalism, though I personally find this most appealing. It is however, a bid for a moment of stay, a time to stop and pivot to a clearer and more purposeful way. A milestone of asking harder questions of how we live and how we see the future. A conversation of us and we, life and living and the definition of humanity. Who we are and where we’re going.

Ben & Aja Blanc

Passion

To know and to believe are two different processes, one is based on knowledge and the other, emotion. But to combine them brings something multifaceted and expressive, passion. To know deeply and to believe deeply is to evoke from the gut a sense of self so grand it echoes from the archives of our histories. A vastness that courses through our veins, as ancient residue: particles and shards of centuries past.

This is life’s teaching and our ongoing learning. A process of becoming or undoing depending on which way one tends more to lean, knowing or believing. It is this layering that is our current tangle, where truth and lies, knowing and believing are passionately intertwined in an effort to find meaning or a resemblance thereof.

“Resolve exists within the passion of knowing and believing, it is here that light emanates, where hope pushes and will pulls.”

It is within this that resolve exists, where the tangle eventually suffocates itself and finds a new path, sows a new seed. Resolve exists within the passion of knowing and believing, it is here that light emanates, where hope pushes and will pulls.

Digging Paths

Life moves often not with the ease of a straight arrow but the free will of a butterfly. Tossing and turning as a nights bad rest. It is never, if rarely a path visible from the start of a decision, but one that exposes itself only after the first foot forward. From this comes the leaps and bounds, the spiraling up and spiraling down.

Erickson Aesthetics

“It is this weaving of time and direction that creates reality, that builds the form of meaning, purpose and resolve.”

Our paths in life are not unique, nor are they singular in their criss-crossing and weaving. This is the tapestries of life, the tattered and knotted, loose connections and titanium bindings. It is this weaving of time and direction that creates reality, that builds the form of meaning, purpose and resolve. Through this process, goals manifest and new paths enfold: layering and knotting new forms, entangling desire with fear.

Within the digging of paths, life exposes its truths though often we see them as lies, sifting all information through our own filters and stories: our own biases undetected and unwanted. This is when life folds upon itself, morphing into black holes and funneling a different direction, kneading the future unknown.

Carl Barnett Design/Studio

It is the forming of paths that all life makes sense, eventually creating clarity if only from a historical perspective. Through doing, digging and building do we see the future we seek or at least the glimmer, shown through the haze of desire and the light of hope.

Carl Barnett Design/Studio

Efforts of Others

“Through their inspiration we can better manifest our own navigation system: mapping our way through the contemporary terrain of dogma and contradictions.”

Within this era of challenge, I admire the efforts of others, how they inspire life by way of positive endeavor. Through their inspiration we can better manifest our own navigation system: mapping our way through the contemporary terrain of dogma and contradictions.

It is through the inspiration of others that we glean a better future, for ourselves and those we in turn support. Under this umbrella, life expands.

Kennith Nielson Carl Barnett Design/Studio

In the arena of interior design this is made evident by what we collect. How we surround ourselves with the hand created, books and music, is to allow inspiration. This is what the material world does, how words work, how beauty in all its manifestations, enfolds.

Fernando Mastrangelo

Review

ANTI-table is a furniture piece designed by Brooklyn-based Erickson Aesthetics. A composite of polarities.

A review for LEIBAL

ANTI-table by Erickson Aesthetics