PLINTH CULTURE
EMBRACING, and making use of, ISOLATION AND ON EDGE-EDNESS (décor-wise and life-wise). + *THE* $365 plinth
Dear Snoops,
Décor, at times, must be – must be! - made isolated and put on edge. Because that is part of the human condition, it happens to all of us – and décor must imitate life.
In “human life” these moments of PRECARIOUSNESS and VULNERABILITY - where one feels as if utterly exposed (to the cosmos) and bufferless – can be importantly existential. They are moments where u can really consider “IS THIS WHAT I WANT IN LIFE?”
Same, too, in décor.
Please refer to: THE PLINTH.
Both a place of honor, a sort of domestic “EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH”, but equally a Thing’s ultimate test: can it stand on its own? Totally on its own?
It’s a sort of décor dialectic, if you think it’s a both/and – honored but under scrutiny; admired but isolated - and through this you might find some sort of Truth about it. What is the Thing?
And so…
TODAY: PLINTHSPIRATIONS AND PLINTH-ADVOCACY; PLINTH PRODUCERS; PLINTH ADJACENCIES; in short, PLINTH *CULTURE*
BTW
We had a super party at the ACE HOTEL BROOKLYN. Hope that we saw you there?
BTW #2: WHAT THE LEGITIMATE F*CK IS THIS?
The NEUEHOUSE DESIGN AWARDS (as if anyone asked them???????) requires all those whose work is accepted to DONATE THAT WORK to NeueHouse, they just take the entry and you never get it back (after you’d pay them $150 to enter):
As if the “permanent collection” of a co-working space will propel ur career? As if the people submitting to this award can afford to just give away work? As if NeueHouse are “patrons” when they seem more like clever thieves.
“FOR SCALE” says: do not submit. WE CAN SEE RIGHT THRU U, NEUEHOUSE.
(Thank you to “FOR SCALE” Correspondent Meara D. for reading the fine print.) Would love to see our “FOR SCALE” pals on the jury say something about this.