manifesto of a wildetect mad mind
wildefurn wildetecture design fits into the typical African artists wildone ideas category, The architectural designs and furniture wildetecture is exploring is a style of wild african fauvistic design conceptual.
The wildetect furniture range is really immediacy towards an end product - like drinking oros without water, or biting hard sweets to get the intense flavor immediately. - architectural design is such a long creative process - with huge money constraints, client nonsense, QS piles, interior designer angst, landscape architect biliary and builders and contractors whining, all endeavoring to water down ones initial design ideas to absolute dust nothing. The end product is sadly always a chipped away collective creative process. With many, many gritted teeth smiles whilst you calf eye the interior designer whose just axed a very important window for the blooming TV. And who endeavors to challenge the architectural style with current weekly trends from any number of glossy photographic platforms. The mood boards never seem to really align with the mood.
So wildetecture design is a complete knee jerk reaction to this type of creative collective control really. The idea with these wild furniture pieces and the bright gaudy colours is the stuffed bright red crocodile in the room approach - as wildetects we love functional art and colour form, the idea of not taking yourself too design serious. - yes I am aware my work can be very childlike in execution and form at times. However the concept is to create one off pieces that are not at all serious but can be playful. The Charlie chit chat chair is a moment to sit and relax and giggle and childishly implode as we juxtapose our very serious adult lives. a childish zone if you like, discussing the bizarre merits or demerits of a crazy wildly colorful furniture piece, a type of adult den, to chill ax - because if the designers this nuts , maybe it’s OK for me to be a little childish whilst I sit in it. Bringing in the child like mindset within the adult environment through color, form and playfulness. Well thats the idea, i know the adulting is far more complicated than all that diatribe i just spewed out.
Designers can prattle on about Africa being such an influence - however most just tack on a few well known paint techniques and a few beads and haven't really understood the deep Africa highways and byways, the informal settlements to the incredible vistas. most try to compare and dare i say, westernise Africa, Picasso is one of the rare artists who tapped into the very heartbeat and drum beat of an African continent. Africa is big , bold , loud in your face taxi music - BOOM BOOM BOOM the sound comes up out the ground the beat and base is so loud, taxi pull in front and park whilst you must wait, its a type of wild punk. (did i just make a comparison, tut tut) Just visit any African city from Cape to Cairo and tell me if its all quiet classical music and afternoon tea and second breakfasts? Well second breakfasts definetly.
To my limited mind Its more wild edge of your seat markets with buy anything you can imagine. A sheep head on the braai, millions of dollars being exchanged in the open with a few AK 47 dudes holding court, it is a wild edge of your seat experience. its really exciting - not subdued and definitely not apologetic. that's why so many folk leave its shores to head for the social quietness of a island suburb. But they come back, because the pulse is in the blood. The adventure is in the soil. You can only watch the grass grow for so long. If you wait long enough in some african suburbs, a dude with a spade turns your grass into sods, and then sells them on the corner for a buck. Run away grass, now thats a concept new zealanders might just struggle to believe.
as wildetects we are endeavouring to tap into this wild energy with our wildetect style of furniture. which is not a carbon copy of Scandinavian designs or IKEA stores. which i love - however its not wild Africa. we look to Africa for our inspiration.
The furniture is more an experiment towards a wildetect African fauvistic design concept. I know its appeal is very limited - and that is what I enjoy the most. Once you’ve seen it - you can’t really go back. It’s that in your face.
