In the spirt of the Vienna Workshops I have designed a pattern which I have then applied to a variety of types of objects. The workshops often developed one motif and then used it in fashion, interior, graphic, and industrial designs. There was also a great concern with timeliness in the work produced by the workshops. With that mindset I developed a patter that is highly decorative and lavish in the style of Degobert Peche but created its parts from images found online and of banal significance in our culture. The main pattern is constructed of a photograph of a woman’s hand’s with acrylic nails painted to represent various brands of junk-food chips while the flowers are constructed of gummy worms and McDonald’s emblems. It is my idea that if the Workshops were working in our culture today the work that they would make for our time would be seeking to find beauty in the existing culture (that of junk food, internet, and acrylic nails) just as much as they would still look to other cultures for influence (the mandala pattern which I have employed.) I have applied my pattern to various “customizable” online products as a deliberate break from the handcrafted idealism of the Workshops. I imagine that if the workshops were to come into existence today we are so far removed from the hand crafted object that it could no longer be a plausible consideration. Unlike Hoffmann or Peche who had a tangible connection to the much more recent past of the hand crafted object current society is so far removed from that and so vastly more involved in consumerism that such a system could not support it. WIth that in mind I have altered their mission for the purpose of my export so that it might become something that is aesthetically sound and conceptually in the spirit of the workshops while being more accessible and plausibly manufactured.
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