Rise : Artwork 3

The Latin grammar is the philosophy. Audere — to dare — and facere — to do — are the same grammatical form, the infinitive, which means the sentence is not saying that daring leads to doing or that daring enables doing. It is saying they are the same thing: the act of daring is the act of doing, and any distinction between them is an illusion that fear creates. This is a Roman philosophical position, not a motivational slogan — the Stoics understood that the barrier between intention and action was not external circumstance but the internal hesitation that separates the two as if they were different events. Tottenham Hotspur adopted this as their club motto in the nineteenth century, which has given it a second life, but the original claim is older and more precise. In the context of the Rise collection, it is the most compressed piece — three words that collapse the gap between thinking about something and doing it, which is where most things end. For a workspace, a creative studio, or any room where the work is of the kind that requires taking the first step before you feel ready.