The reverse role of experience
From Mod Mania
Living in Japan for an 8 month period opened my eyes to the occurrences of modification and its place amongst world wide communities. My best friend in Japan, Satoshi and I discussed how he could modify his jeans without detracting from the use as jeans. It was funny that he decided that day that he would perform what I had tried to avoid for years beforehand. Paint adhering to denim in my opinion was not a sought after outcome from my experiences as a young man in Melbourne. Yet that day I gave him advice spurring from mistakes and experiences I had trying to remove paint from my jeans.
Collaborating and pooling our knowledge, the jeans got paint on them in a different manner to that which I was accustomed to. It was not a common trend at this time in Melbourne Australia or Nagoya Japan and I am not saying we started the trend. But rather that I did not see any other people in Japan wearing jeans with paint on them in the time after. It was not until I returned to Australia and resumed my life in Melbourne that 12 months later it became a fashion trend.
Collaboration provides brains with tools to be poked and prodded, something that our brains long for. Thoughts regarding issues and prior experience become part of a process that can create a new modification not experienced by either parties involved. How can these thoughts be provoked to show themselves in the light that people have switched off in the corner of their brains? Does it always require a prod from experience or rather why can’t it be?
If modifications are modifying to create something new that has not been experienced, does the modification then get re labelled as something different to that deviated by the modifier?
