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In my Thesis Essay I examine living objects, objects which exhibit a quality of having life. Objects such as Istanbul's Blue Mosque which I visited in 1999. It is an amazing building, a huge open immensely patterned space. I was struck immediately by the life that this building possesses, life in its visual appearance, but more profoundly in its responsiveness to the activities going on within it.

During the years that I spent building and designing pipe organs people often described the instruments that I worked on as living instruments, as having a living presence within the churches in which they reside. As a craftsmen I sensed this too. I also found that as I grew as a craftsmen the process of building took on an organic flow, that I worked more towards unfolding an instrument, rather than completing individual tasks.

In my Thesis Essay I look at the conditions in which living objects arise, the ways in which they are experienced, and the possibilities that they offer to designers and audiences.

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