Pattern is described as essential to life and fundamental
towards its relationship with ornament. With pattern recognition, we recognize
relationships which helps us interpret what we see and adds layers of meaning to
that encounter. As designers and artists use ornament to translate their
perception or concept that ornament becomes an extension of their vision.
Ornament mirrors the intertwined nature of life, ornament communicates in an aesthetic
language of complex exchanges. In addition, contemporary designers use ornament
as their medium of exchange and tell us tales and stories about objects. The tales
of ornament are woven by their own experiences by outside influences.
Ornament and Pattern were meant to engage the mind
through the eye. Ornament and Pattern work as form- based languages by visually
depicting ideas. Contemporary ornaments communicate customs, lore, histories
and the appreciation of craft. Despite ornament’s pejorative associations with
eastern decadence and feminine weakness known as “feminine arts of decoration”
ornament survived. With technology advancing, mass production handcrafted
decoration declined because of the expense. Machines were inexpensive than
highly trained artisans. Later, machine
produced ornament would be known as “inferior ornament”. Quickly, ornament
started losing its cache of exclusivity and social refinement.
With the future approaching, ornament would arrive in
the form (and forms) of Modernism. The values of design were changing to
structural elements including abstract and geometric ornament. In brief, technology
helped develop potentials to rethink and remake ornament that would be renovated
based on the changing elements of design within ornament and pattern.
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