{"id":617,"date":"2009-05-27T23:46:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T06:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=617"},"modified":"2009-05-27T23:46:35","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T06:46:35","slug":"making-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/05\/27\/making-things\/","title":{"rendered":"making things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last year, I&#8217;ve stopped making <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?id=92149574&#038;s=143441\">music<\/a> and begun making things like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/noway\/3534306527\/in\/set-72157606770328110\/\">tables<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more more--><\/p>\n<p>Part of the pleasure I get from this kind of work is that it forces me to reckon with the material world; with forces like gravity and friction as well as the history of things and the value of natural resources. Much of the professional work I do\u00a0has been aided by dematerialization, a process by which the physical world is supplanted or at least augmented by a symbolic world. In my recreational work, I am now tackling reality from the opposite \u2013 or, at least, an apposite \u2013 direction.<\/p>\n<p>We often use the phrase &#8220;to work with one&#8217;s hands&#8221; but I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s quite it. (I&#8217;m typing with my hands right now.) Rather, it&#8217;s working with the material world that poses some provocative challenges. To build something, no matter how simple, is to investigate how our stores are stocked and wages set. It&#8217;s an opportunity to appreciate the discoveries implicit in many of the conveniences we take for granted.<\/p>\n<p>It can be a helpful reminder of the here and now when so much of what we now do is focus on the elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last year, I&#8217;ve stopped making music and begun making things like tables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}