drop

A smartphone is already obsolete after one year of life; but while we await the advent of immaterial thermal and visual diaphragms, we still use traditional handles without any trouble at all. Many common objects like cups, forks, bottles, nails, rubber bands – things that might be depicted, together with bees and elephants, in an old primary school textbook – form the beloved backdrop of our everyday life. Their virtue is to be useful, silent tools that do not set out to send messages, to promise global salvation: they are perceived in a more discreet “physiognomic” way.