Flatwig x Design Miami: Hold on / On hold

The artwork Hold on / On hold is inspired by a letter written by Ettore Sottsass, called “Breaks”, which we believe is very timely. It is about self-reflection and experiencing and appreciating pauses as essential moments for all of us. During the pandemic, we’ve learned how to taste and experience pauses, accepting and when possible embracing moments of nothing when all you have to do is hold on.

"Days are packed with breaks, overflowing with waiting. You could say there are more breaks than ‘non breaks’ in life. It makes you think you spend most of your life bemusedly waiting to see what’s going on to happen. It makes you want to say that breaks are countless and never-ending. They are the times when you wait helpless, trying to understand what changes inside of us, and what changes outside of us. We wait in silence to understand how our movements change, how our smiles and our visions change, how our splendour fades, how our courage fades too and history changes, how changes come about in that strange landscape that never stops moving, partly because we see it from the window of our train, the train that is us."

 (Ettore Sottsass, For Ada Serhan, 2001)