The last days of blob-at-home

---Conversation with partner------

Me: You are going to have to let go of the blob soon. I'm going to take it back to Yvonne and the Object Research Lab.

My partner: I want you to ring her and ask her if we can keep it.

Me: I'll ask her but I'm pretty sure she wants it back.

My partner: Call her.

Me: I'll email her tomorrow.

My partner: No, phone is best. Ring her please.

Me: She will want it back I'm sure. It's her art thing.

My partner: I'll pay for it.

Me: How much?

My partner: I don't know.


---A few days later------

We have a New Year's Eve lunch and during the party, Noortje Marres, who will also be attending the Object Research lab event in Amsterdam next week, comes. After a while she tells me she has noticed that people find different ways to interact with the blob during the party.

Noortje: The blob is a thing in itself.

My partner: Kant's theory of aesthetics insists that the beauty of an object has no relation to its utility. Perhaps the blob does support Kantian aesthetics because it's beautiful but it doesn't have any practical function.

Me: I disagree - it makes itself useful in lots of different ways, without people noticing.


---A few days later, an email from me to Yvonne----

Presumably you would like me to bring back the blob - although my partner P wants to ask you if he can buy it because he finds it very useful and comfortable.


---Reply from Yvonne-------

would be good if you can bring the blob, i think we need him as a workshop participant, in the long term i will see that P gets a suitable replacement blob.


---Conversation with partner------

Me: She does want me to bring it although it will be a pain on the Eurostar and the train. She says she might get you a replacement.

My partner: No. Tell her me and that blob are very attached now and it won't be the same.

Me: I've noticed.

My partner: We could turn it into a backpack and put straps on it if you really did have to take it back.

Me: I have to go and write this on the blog now.