Domain Project

When Hunter S. Thompson died, my dad, who loved him, said, "It's especially hard because you though that someday you'd meet up with him and all the people who got it."

In Tokyo there is a new indoor swimming pool equipped with a basin of intensely undulating water in which the swimmers remain in one place. The turbulence prevents any attempt to move forward, and the swimmers must try to advance just to hold their position. Like a kind of home - trainer or conveyor belt, the dynamics of currents in this Japanese pool have the sole function of forcing the racing swimmers to struggle with the energy passing through the space of their confluence, an energy that takes the place of the dimensions of an Olympic pool just as the belts of the home trainer replace stadium race tracks.

Our lives are spent in the company of objects. These are the objects we sit on, sleep on, cook our meals atop, and keep our belongings in; our furniture. Since wood is the cheapest material to make these objects, that is the material they're often made of. Unfortunately, this wood is unsafe for us in every way. When I say "we deserve this," I do mean what I say because for too long, affordability alone has been the principle interest for the consumer. We pine away for the insurance we rightly deserve, never realizing it is the wood that makes our furniture that causes us these maladies. We deserve this. Quality of wood is determined by UGF standards. The current UGF standards under the United States department of public safety are horrific but we deserve it. This is not debatable. If nobody understands that currently there are very few chances for us to elevate our lives because we've become so accepting of "the way things are," it is on them. Accepting the "way things are," is waiting for collapse. For too long there has been no overhead for concerns of the important few in exchange for the doting many. Regardless of UGF standards, we have the awareness of what should and shouldn't be in our homes. We have the ability to make ourselves useful. Current furniture is not sustainable because it gives us no capability of molding our own future.