Hi there, I'm Michael Weaker.
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I am an artist-designer. My medium is the functional object—and I use that medium to make functional sculpture. Drawing on my background in engineering, materials, and manufacturing, my practice leverages the tension between technical experimentation and emotional expression. My work explores the space where the rigor of engineering meets the emotional life of objects—how familiar, useful forms can carry memory, feeling, and personal experience.
We're doing three experiments:
Exp.01: Engineering/Materials
What can a material do?
How can something be fabricated?
What happens if you alter a process?
How can a familiar form be technically transformed?
How can function generate form?
Exp.02: Art/Emotion
Why does an object feel familiar?
Why do certain forms evoke memory?
Why do we become attached to ordinary things?
How can an object create delight, recognition, nostalgia, intimacy, humor, etc.?
Exp.03: Exp.01 ∩ Exp.02
How can an engineered solution can become emotionally evocative?
How can a familiar domestic object can become strange through experimentation?
How can a functional object can become art without ceasing to be functional?
How can a material decision can carry emotional meaning?
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