When I first saw the [Fingerboard course](https://cdn.blot.im/blog_cf8c8d08aeaf49f6964f5921140258f6/_image_cache/e1988e39-f1c4-42bc-be9b-2b34cac007b5.jpg), it felt like an architectural model. During my student days, I enjoyed making architectural models, or rather, I found the process of transforming the objects very enjoyable. It wasn't about designing house or spaces, but rather I liked abstracting and modeling the world. There was a piece at a friend's house that caught my eye, and upon asking, I learned it was a work by an acquaintance friend [Reina Takahashi](https://www.reinasaur.com/). Seeing that piece, and combined with my frustration over my daughter's room not being tidied up, suddenly made me strongly recall Thomas Demand's work. I bought Thomas Demand's '[The Dailies](https://www.mackbooks.us/products/the-dailies-expanded-edition-br-thomas-demand?variant=42383097757884&currency=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&gclid=Cj0KCQiAsvWrBhC0ARIsAO4E6f81KuvNXieGpt54fo2BxV_L_4AAx4dAhHMGPz1yWNBV_NCeq8F0HiUaAhhjEALw_wcB).' His pieces initially felt creepy to me, perhaps because they were models of very vivid things expressed through abstracted objects. Returning to the topic of Fingerboard, the courses in finger boarding feel like models of streets where people live. Playing on them seems like gaining a bodily sensation of smoothly moving within a model. However, for me, abstracting and roughly materializing these concepts feels wonderfully significant. Therein lies the joy of human recognition of something.