The undesirable in design

"Designing from the undesirable
and painting from failure"

I suggest not starting a process whose purpose is to create an object of desire.
Designing becomes a continuous failure. Every symbolic act fails to represent reality. 
That would be the starting point for painting. 

Designing without knowing the final destination does not have to be a bad start. 
It is not a leap into the void but a leap from the void.
You can work knowing what you do not want, and that is what marks the path to follow.

If the designed object is well constructed, communicates clearly and there is social consensus, can we continue working on that object, looking for other outlets? Or should we perpetuate it as valid and stop thinking about it?

Designing a chair does not have to be guided by functionality. What is truly interesting is not what works well, but what fails structurally.

The idea of working on a chair as something undesirable (from the point of view of discomfort) may be a reaction to the fact that design can be used not only to solve a problem but also to feel the chair in its failure. Like a cry... and here we begin to talk about painting.

There are things that do not necessarily turn out well. They can have a tragic or comic ending, and from this interesting poetics can emerge.

Taking this to a graphic level is like jumping from design to painting. Between the two there is a void that can generate an experimental dynamic. A tension.

Painting detracts from the functionality of design, and design intercedes in contact with painting. It is neither design nor painting, and it is both at the same time.

What happens if we work with ‘the remains of an object from a remote place’ :). Not to repair it, nor to redirect it, but to accompany it and create a dialogue with the idea of making it visible, making it problematic or even strange. In this way, the object becomes pure presence. And this allows for another kind of gaze.

Areas of uncertainty can be, and I believe they are, a fertile place where one can play with new ways of seeing and thinking.

Design can emerge ‘from’ man's undesirable restlessness.
The undesirable thing would be for its end to materialise in the desired object.

We will continue painting to see what happens.