Reading John Maeda's book "The Laws of Simplicity" I came to understand that while simplicity has always been a topic i reference and discuss with my work, it's really become clear that it's a major challenge in my life. In fact, it's become interesting that the renaissance of simplicity is directly juxtaposed to our increasingly complex life. I'd argue that it's not our love for simplicity that gave birth to the iPod or Google, but it's nature of wanting more in life that inherently requires it to be simple. I have no time for learning curves, long load times, convoluted answers; i need it fast, simple and easy. Instead of having a few moderately complex devices and tools, we now have many more simple, easy to use, multi-use devices. So it's a bit of a fallacy to think that as our tools and devices get simpler, life simplifies, but the end equation really ends up being quite paradoxical, simple = more.
Google is the closest to an Omniscient (all-knowing) entity in existence. She indexes over 9.5 billion Web Pages, which is more than any other search engine on the web today. Not only is Google the closest to all-knowing, but She also sorts through this vast amount of data using Her patented PageRank method, making said data accessible for us mere mortals.
Palecek seems to approach his painting of a gmail login in a similar context where i think my scluptures will reside in. Palecek is a very big influence in the direction of this project.
he writes in his blog
So, the painting above is the way Gmail looks as of Tuesday, January 16. As it changes through the years (probably many years since google rarely changes their design), the painting will stay the same. I like that.
This is one of the main themes I touch on, the permanence of this art will be in direct contrast with the infinitely changeable nature of the internet.
