Is there a relationship between cars and houses? And, if there is, what commonalities are there between what we search for in an automobile and a home?
Such questions are important to me in my work as a car designer. I observe that our human form is merely a container to protect— and carry around — our real selves. For further protection from the elements, we shelter our bodies inside other containers — our dwellings. These dwellings grow into towns and cities, accumulated around the things to which we all need shared access: once it was fresh water; today it's just about anything and everything, all the time. We take up more and more space, and since the 1920s, we have used automobiles to negotiate our way around it all. Cars now fill our landscape, creating a street-level horizon, like rows of miniature dwellings.
When children first begin to draw images, the first recognizable forms are usually representations of the human body, a symbol of the self. The act of drawing triggers the unconscious in our psyche. Children move on quickly to representations of things they find around them.