8> Nesting

This series of objects (71 to 80) examines the notion of nesting as temporary containment, one that exemplifies the functional dependency that defines the sequential nature of the entries in this blog. The change purse contains the coins for the public phone; the megaphone absorbs human voice and contains is for a second before it releases it; the GoTalk button and the sophisticated Sony PCM-D1 recorder are also voice containers, linked to the process of human communication as devices designed to expand the human auditory system and somehow increase its performing capabilities. The StroViol is a fascinating instrument, one in which form and function are specially close, with a horn of extraordinary formal qualities, just like the discarded cardboard spools I came across at my local recycling center. Finally, the material of those cones –cardboard- brings the series back to the function of storage through the somehow frivolous design of expensive storage boxes that attempt to reinterpret –certainly not improve- the anonymous cardboard box we all have in abundance in our homes. Nesting as a principle for objectual relationships points out to the dependencies and invisible hierarchies that link things together: I can transport my change in my pocket, or in a small foldable purse that I then put in my pocket, etc. Nesting gives sense to the layered way in which objects relate to us through function, form and value. This is the principle by which objects apparently unrelated are indeed interdependent.