Barbie and Ken were fun, but what are they without their dream house? The dream house was fun, but how creative can you be with a rigid six square rooms with the back torn off? Start with square one. Err… block one that is. I ditched the rigid dream house for a few more flexible pieces. Legos.
Legos allowed flexibility, creativity, and most importantly, intrigue. They were an infinite number of shapes and assemblages with such a simple building block, all waiting for my imagination. At this stage of my life, my imagination was endless and so was my box of legos.
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| Nathan Sawaya- LEGO artist |
Somewhere along the line society stepped in and started shutting things down. Giving us a set of guidelines and a checklist of what was and was not acceptable. Our childlike state of being is the essence of what we start out as, and the building blocks of who we are. What is so wrong with the crazy extravagant ideas that we develop as a child? It hasn’t been done before? Great! No one has figured out how to construct that? Even better. Challenge accepted.
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| Nathan Sawaya - LEGO artist |
Creating the whimsical and interesting intrigues me. The childlike state of being brings out a different side of people that isn’t always seen. Bringing this side out through the development of a building and how it interacts with it’s users is absolutely fascinating.
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