project 58/

THERE ARE NO SUCH THINGS AS UNSUCCESSFUL PROJECTS

B. Zavyalov, Designer, Zagorsk

It is common knowledge that the emergence of any project on the one hand is connected with an intensified conceptualization of some stated task or problem, and on the other hand the incessant work of the imagination, fantasy. Without the posing of a serious problem on which perhaps a large number of sharp minds have previously worked, there cannot be either profundity or significance for others of the proposed resolution. Without imagination and fantasy, its image and its configuration cannot be formulated.

All of this together represents a long and arduous process where repeatedly selected variations and "sudden occurrences" participate simultaneously. In this sense, it is impossible to refer to any project as unsuccessful - it can only be referred to as an unsuccessful variation of something which in a different altered view or with a shift in components, in a word, a "sudden occurrence" - will turn out to be the correct resolution, absolutely successful.

There is a specially assembled table for modeling and illustrating this conceptualization and in part to aid in the solution of the problem which is entirely remote from this invisible and frivolous game described below. (Although we know how many frivolous actions served as the impetus for extraordinarily serious discoveries - there are many such examples in the history of science.)

On a specially constructed table you need to arrange, moreover for a rather prolonged time period, scraps from all kinds of household activities: here included are scraps of paper, parts from repaired electrical appliances, nails and scraps leftover from minor repairs of the table - in a word that small junk which always accumulates in the house. All these things lie on the table to rather chaotic disarray, covering virtually its entire surface. But the table where all of this has wound up, is rather specialized. Its edges are raised and bent and small lamps are installed below them along the perimeter. When you approach it and turn on the light, a metamorphosis occurs suddenly on it. The formless chaos lying on it quickly transforms into a richly and complexly established world which will immediately excite your imagination. If your brain is continually occupied with some problem, then it is not out of the question that you will find a solution to it in one of the corners of the table.

THERE ARE NO SUCH THINGS AS UNSUCCESFUL PROJECTS

1. Build a table 190 x 96 x 72 cm. Paint the upper surface (stain it) with dark lacquer so that it remains dark brown.

The legs and sides of the table should be dark brown.

2. Build an edge around the table, make the corners slightly rounded. Paint them the same color as the legs.

3. Run electricity inside the edge, install 18 lamps.

4. Rather "everyday" junk and scatter it on the table.

5. The electric bulbs should burn continually.