A wonderful and fascinating teacher once said, That to allow a form to come into being as Michelangelo, would be true craft and true creation.
Maybe it would be, and maybe not! How would we know? Why don’t we investigate those words a bit and look to see if we can discover something more?
If we were to explore the richness of the essence of what he produced we would see the evidence of a man who was moved to understand the medium of marble, the elegance of the form of the human body and to create a prodigious sensitivity to the individual parts that make up the whole.
How did Michelangelo work? Is it not said that that he saw the design from within, and he moved to free the image from within by his chisel from without?
How then would we proceed if we were let the design (of anything) unfold from within? We can be sure that Michelangelo studied his piece of marble carefully, noting the flow of the formation of the material. And then knowing as well as he might, he would probably at some point begin to see that there was the possibility of a specific form within, because if he arbitrarily chose his own form, the pattern would not work with the flow of the material and the sculpture would probably end up breaking apart as he put the chisel to his work.
If we were to aspire to understand something from our point of perspective utilizing the principal of seeing something from within before using our “tools” to let unfold those things without, it would seem that we might began by studying those things that begin from within! Easy for you to say! It does make sense that anything that Nature creates and grows does so according to the description of the core within. That would be true creation.
The essence of growth in Nature seems to happen from a pattern or a specific core that can only produce a unique answer to the core…hmmm that’s interesting! An authentic blade of grass!
What then is the core of design for a space such as a kitchen? What would be a starting point from which we can begin to see a beginning pattern to a solution that would be that unique place to allow the unfolding of the flow of materials, the function, the aesthetics, and the people who would use that space?
Stay tuned! Let's see if we can uncover something more about this!
