Maeda's SIMPLICITY

The Power of Sardines

Three shiny objects and two smells.

On some days the planets align. Today was such a day. On my table at MIT, there was an unplanned meeting between three silvery objects. One was the heatsink (the piece of metal that is attached to microprocessors in order to dissipate their incredible heat) to my old Mac G4, the second was a Powerbook battery I stopped using that tended to overheat in kind of a dangerous way, and the third was a can of sardines I recently purchased in Paris for the beauty of its silvery box. I am a believer in signs for the same reason I gave pause when I discovered that SIMPLICITY and COMPLEXITY both contain the letters MIT in sequence. What might this particular sign of silver rectangles mean? By coincidence (maybe not anymore) I am working on a new piece entitled "Silver" for the Fondation Cartier exhibition. I guess that means I better finish it soon.

Posted by maeda at October 12, 2005 02:06 PM