The Wiggle Collection.
The Wiggle Collection is inspired by Alan Watts.
“Nature is wiggly. Everything wiggles: the outlines of the hills, the shapes of the trees, the way the wind brushes the grass, the clouds, tracts of streams. It all wiggles. And for some reason or other, we find wiggly things very difficult to keep track of. And, you know, we say to people, “Keep still so that I can see you. Keep still for the camera.” And we say, “Well, let’s get things straightened out,” “Let’s get it all squared away.” And then, somehow, we think we understand things when we have translated into terms of straight lines and squares… but it doesn’t fit nature.
You know, wherever human beings have been around and done their thing, you find rectangles. We live in boxes. Our streets… are laid out in a grid pattern —because it seems that the human being really has a very simple kind of mind, and all this wiggliness is too complicated. I don’t think it really is complicated because, after all, it’s very simple to move—say, to raise something, or to open and close your hand. It’s perfectly easy because we don’t have to think about it. Things become complicated only when we think about them, and that’s because we are trying to translate them into a form of life which is very much simpler and cruder than the forms of life we’re talking about. A triangle is very much simpler and cruder than a mountain, even though you may represent a mountain with a triangle.
Human beings are just as wiggly as nature. And our brains are an incredible mess of wiggles, and that’s the part of ourselves that we understand least of all.”