How can we touch Mars here on Earth? It is an amazing thought to consider that 50 years after landing on the moon, we are sending only a chosen few to live and die millions of miles away within the next decade. This cabinet can’t explore far away worlds, but it can instead trigger the imagination of us at home.
Some worlds are inherited while others are chosen. This cabinet evaluates a childhood defined by the digital. Moving to New York City at the age of six, on my birthday I received my first IPod in the same year. This little device, a sandbox of urban jazz music, carried me through years of commuting back and forth between divorced parents house, tuning out a world louder than no other.
Devices like that IPod can shape the world to both a child and to us all, and yet we discard them for the next new thing when design cycles change. Where do these discarded companions live if not in a landfill or a forgotten drawer? This cabinet functions as a reliquary for these items, perhaps even a coffin, for memories fragmented but not forgotten.
Made only with a 9/16ths round chisel, this block of poplar quickly took the form of a phone. Constantly harassed by a buzzing in my pocket, phones are on my mind. They are a fixture in this digital age. This phone is great to play with, satirizing the seriousness attachment to our digital sidekicks.
