Shock of the New
The Roman God, Janus, is usually depicted as having two faces, since he looks both to the future and to the past. In more contemporary times, the most creative architects have also looked to the past and to the future to re-imagine the present. In this project I was asked to find an artifact from another era and reinvent it. I found an oak headboard on a dump outside my house. Oak is in general a good and fairly expensive wood-type but because the headboard was broken everything lost its value. Similar to what Sou Fujimoto did at the Chicago Architectural Biennial and what Charles and Ray Eames did with the Powers of 10. The artifact is re-purposed through the use of scale, repetition and insertion where it was possible to create a series of drawings that became rather playful, somewhat sarcastic and politically powerful.