unconscious endeavours

GARBAGE ARCHITECTURE

I was just looking at some random architecture website and saw some of the works made by students. Somehow it reminded me of my own models and works. I always felt that my models are never neat. But I don't think that I am a particularly untidy person. Disorganized maybe. But I think that my stuff are always looking very non-professional because I always have this mentality that it's such a waste of materials and money when we make all those models and panels just to for presentation purposes. So, it just came to my mind all of a sudden that maybe I should really start thinking about going into garbage architecture or architecture that makes uses of recycling products..something like that. I remembered something that a friend said to me before. My friend is someone who hates to shop in shopping malls but loves to shop at second hand stores. There is this second hand chain store , Value Village, in Canada which she brought me to. I was pretty amazed at how long she could spend her time there shopping when she is someone who told me that she felt almost embarrassed to step into shops and try on their clothes. Anyway, she said to me once that she don't like new clothes...almost feel dirtying them or something to make them look used. I found it pretty interesting then.
That's what I am thinking about my models and buildings too. I just feel that they should not look brand new. I prefer to have models that look unfinished and building that have a raw look or maybe unfinished. I just have the urge to continue experimenting with them. Oops! Hope that that's not my excuse for making crappy models!
Anyway,I guess that I should start thinking about making better presentations..Afterall, presentations do help to make a better impression of the whole project. I hope I am not contradicting myself. Alright, I can still have garbagy-looking models but neat presentations! Architecture, to me, is afterall a process, a learning process and never a finished product.

Oh..and this also makes me think of my own stingyness that is partly to be blamed for the consequences of my products. A friend called me '铁公鸡' coz I'm a super stingy person. The funny thing is that this stingyness has been part of me since young!! I remembered when I was having art lesson in primary school and the teacher required us to draw on drawing paper. I was one of the few who brought my drawing block. So I gave(lent? forgot which) them to a couple of classmates around me. Then after the teacher left, I saw a couple of them used the paper that I gave them to trace out 'big bird' from sesame street. After that, they asked me for another piece of drawing paper. I got angry that they were wasting my paper for some unimportant stuff and they will probably end up throwing away my "precious piece of paper". So, I refused to lend them some more and just took back that first piece that I lent to them! Now that I am thinking about it, I don't think that I can find someone more petty and stingy than that ME but nonetheless that was pretty funny!

It's 423am now...and I am still intoxicated by caffeine!! Well, no use regreting now about drinking that ice blended kopi yesterday evening!

posted by shuugi @ 1:29 PM