Before Knowing What It Will Become
Unquiet Form began with the idea of bringing art and wood together. Then I wanted to bring fashion into it. Then I realised I could keep adding worlds, one after another.
That unfolding interests me. Whenever I encounter something that sparks my curiosity, a possibility opens up: discovering how it might relate to what I create.
I love the moment when two seemingly distant things begin to have something to say to each other.
Leaving Room for Possibility
When I think about the future of Unquiet Form, I want to leave room for influences I couldn’t predict today.
The simplest example that comes to mind is a football match. I could watch one tomorrow and find something that makes me want to create. I don’t yet know what—and that is precisely why I want to remain open to the idea.
There is a freedom I deeply value in allowing myself to begin somewhere without already knowing where I will end up. I can follow a connection, try to give it form and discover that it leads somewhere unexpected.
I want UF to grow alongside what I discover, without having to resemble its first idea forever.
Finding a Connection
Bringing different worlds together asks me to understand what connects them.
Wood, fashion, art: naming them is easy. The work begins when I have to find a relationship that makes sense within an object. Something expressed through its form, its proportions and the way its materials meet.
It is an exploration I want to keep open to reconsideration. A connection can intrigue me without necessarily becoming a work. I want to reach the point where the choices support one another and I can recognise myself in what I am making.
The freedom to begin with anything carries a responsibility: choosing what deserves to remain.
Beauty in Someone’s Life
Among all these possibilities, I return to the relationship between beauty and function.
I’m fascinated by the thought that an intuition could become something a person lives with every day. An object that will occupy a space, be approached, touched and used.
Function brings another person into the idea.
It leads me to imagine a gesture, a presence, a habit. It asks me to consider what will happen when the work leaves my world and enters someone else’s.
This is where the things I love about creating come together: the freedom to imagine and the craft needed to give that imagination a tangible life.
What I Have Yet to Encounter
I don’t know which influences will find their way into future works. I want to give myself time to discover them.
Today, I begin with what I know and what catches my attention. Tomorrow, something might change the direction of an exploration or suggest a new one.
I like to think that part of Unquiet Form’s future is already out there, in something I haven’t noticed yet.