Lines of Enquiry

Constructed with utilitarian corrugations, these forms are inspired by current debates around how to navigate the fourth industrial revolution. Lines of Enquiry was conceived when I attended a march against Meta’s theft of copyrighted books to train its AI models in the same week that CSM introduced ceramics students to AI tools. Do certain machines pose an existential threat to the maker, and diminish art and, if so, where do you draw the line? Or can digital technology and tools designed for precision, certainty and repetition be used instead to encourage material agency, risk and variation. 

Using industrial tools and hand building this project is an investigation of workmanship of risk as defined by the theories of furniture designer David Pye; an exploration of risk vs certainty instead of hand vs machine.