What are you going to make today?

There is something comforting about complicated. We can become absorbed analysing it, understanding it, and ordering it. We become animal laborans, which as the name implies, is a human being akin to a beast of burden, a drudge condemned to routine. Totally absorbed in what we are doing and oblivious to the outside world. The world of the Swiss Watch – expensive and owned by someone.

Complexity is a nuisance, but up to a certain point, apparently manageable. We can add new features, reset the time, and above all else, show it off even when its effectiveness is questionable. When we live in a world of Chronos time, a place of linear, measurable intervals we can design timepieces to suit, and use them to govern our life. Nine to five (or more likely six till eight if commuting)

At the moment though, it feels as though the rules are running out. When we spend endless hours debating the rules of parties, whilst Afghanistan starves, Ukraine boils and Interior Decorators occupy the Cabinet Of…