bozart.com Josh Owen "Knock Off Lamps" next>>> "My design strategy anticipates a flexible, individuated relationship between user and object. I employ combinations of adaptable and responsive materials, technologies and iconographic forms into my designs in order to allow the user to create a personalization of her/his experience. This interactive aspect of the work becomes integral to the function or identity of the objects I create. What was once a personal choice in terms of utility has been cultivated into a preprogrammed susceptibility to interaction. In this way, the simple act of use becomes a functional seduction."