Graduation project
Monster Truck
Lucas Hendrix
An impossible-to-realise design for a cabinet filled with the owner’s experience is inspired by Albert Camus’ essay ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’.
If you see a cabinet and its contents as a reflection of the owner’s experiences, and we take this closet as an extension of ourselves that we continually drag behind us, what would it look like? Lucas Hendrix’s ‘Monster Truck’ is an attempt to visualise this baggage we carry around. The design is based on Albert Camus’ essay ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’, together with interpretations of different philosophical and architectural ideas. The idea is to mount a two-metre-high ceramic cabinet on one-metre-high wheels. But as a result of continuous reflection on the self and the environment it is in, the piece will never be finished, invoking the very sentiment found in the Sisyphus myth.