The ongoing quest for the perfect chair, recent experience with a memory foam mattress, strolling through the fibre stash … led to a 3 a.m. think time considering how to use the collection of cashmere sweaters as raw material to make a 'perfect chair'.
Thinking about what might be used to turn the sweaters (all fibre archeological treasures discovered on garage sale/thrift store/church sale etc. digs) into 'clay' with which I could 'scupt' a chair; how to keep or make the mass of them firm enough to work with my hands into the shape of a chair yet retain the integrity of the cashmere, the sweater, the repurposing, the soft, cradling fibre …. prompted the idea of a chair that was like a garment. Yes!!!
So I put the 'sculpted sweaters' on a shelf in my mind and let the idea of chair as clothing evolve.
The essence of the process went something like this: (there were many tangents) what to use as the material … an energy source …. our own field of energy …. supplanted? … need to 'sculpt' it …. visualize how it would look; expand on this to tactilization and how it would feel …. having it 'in place' …. match vibration of chair …. giving it a "Sit" command and have it provide appropriate seating for the situation …. ergonomic ….. adjusting to internal and external sensors of posture, mood, temperature, environment, ? … could adapt to sleep position …. total comfort.
It would be the perfect chair, the only one we would ever need, in our home, on a plane, at the office, anywhere.
They used to say "if you can think it, it can happen". This seems to have been uptechnologized to "if you can think it, it is likely already happening."
So, do I wait for it and find another use for all those cashmere sweaters?