Andrea Branzi was right and ahead of his time. For instance, the way smartphones now connect us to others night and day around the globe. The walls have crumbled. Our only option is to press the “off” button… if you can find the willpower to do it!
9. “Metaphysics at its deepest level is based on an implicit geometry […] in giving thoughts a spatial dimension; can a metaphysician even think without drawing?”6 Would you say that “draw no more” can be construed as a wish to find thoughts in objects? Does this also apply to your vision of domestic space and the role of objects within it? How do you envisage our overall relationship with objects?
MSz: It is only after I’ve made my objects that I start reflecting and commenting on them, but I never expect anyone else to consider the whys and wherefores of an object; that is my domain and private compass. If some people appreciate my work, they do it for personal reasons and I have no wish to impose my thoughts on them. Objects, pieces of furniture, are inanimate blocks which encumber our lives when unsuitable. If the opposite is true, they accompany us as naturally as our own shadows.
6 Gaston Bachelard, La Poétique de l’espace (Paris, PUF, 1957), 141.