WEEK 3 - 28/07/11 - WONDER

"I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!" — Lewis Carrol (Alice's adventures in Wonderland)

-    LORENA    - I think the caterpillar felt that way the day she got up and realized she had wings, and all what she knew about crawling wouldn't be useful anymore. It must have taken a while to recognize herself, everything seemed sudden, but by tallying the facts she could understand how she could be the same and so different at the same time. More pictures of the design process here.

-    DAPHNE    - this week made me think about something which is still the same but in a different way. i thought about paper, and how folding it adds something to the existing state it is in. you can not undo a fold in paper, but it is still a piece of paper, only different.

WEEK 2 - 21/07/11 - WONDER

" If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change "      — B u d d a h

-    LORENA    - For a few mornings I was greeted by a bunch of papavers, growing wild in the middle of the noise, debris and neglect of a building construction. Bright red, translucent, swinging in the wind. I wondered how something so perfect and delicate can exist without being planted, fed, protected or noticed. How much beauty do we miss every day? More pictures of the design process here.

-    DAPHNE    - the life of a flower - an abandoned flower leaf, fell from a tree. it landed in the wrong spot, it will never be able to grow into a big tree and let its blossom fall for next generations. instead it ended up being the start of a simple shape, yet so powerful. and gave meaning to a whole new thing. this flowers life has a meaning on its own.

WEEK 1 - 14/07/11 - WONDER

"I wonder how it turns out that we all lead such different lives. Take you and your sister, for example. You're born to the same parents, you grow up in the same household, you're both girls. How do you end up with such wildly different personalities?...One puts on a bikini like little semaphore flags and lies by the pool looking sexy, and the other puts on her school bathing suit and swims her heart out like a dolphin..." — Haruki Murakami (After Dark)

-    LORENA    - Same shapes, materials, and processes can result in such different things. Similarly pretty and robust, yet individually unique in their own way, I tried to enclose Murakami sisters' example in this pair of studs. I made my decision on which one represents each personality, I wonder if you would make the same choice and why. More pictures of the design process here.

-    DAPHNE    - circles are circles, but they can have many shapes. full circle, open circles, closed circle, flat circle or even an spherical circle. and still it is a circle. I wonder how one thing can be so much the same and be so different at the same time.