Vinyl on wood, 2024

Photo by Romain Gamba

This construction game allows us to draw and extend lines, or to break them. It engages the body, which is also being built, as well as the mind, within an interior space: first inside another body, like a cocoon, then within a house, and later a territory. This process evokes a space of safety, a space where the individual can evolve and grow. A space that the individual can inhabit.

The inhabited space is, in a way, the theme of an exhibition we (students from ÉSAL) were able to shape in Sarreguemines, a town known for its faience tradition. The patterns of faience tiles repeat and connect through a correspondence of lines at the tile’s edges. Here, the lines connect based on the same principle, but the pattern does not always repeat. Thirty-six different faces are repeated for a total of 252 faces, creating an immense number of combinatory possibilities from a limited number of designs.

Moreover, these cubes allow us to draw without actually drawing, echoing Uncreative Writing by Kenneth Goldsmith and his vision of a world where writing is so abundant that we no longer need to write—we can simply recompose and recombine what already exists to create.