{"product_id":"i-know-a-shortcut","title":"I Know a Shortcut","description":"\u003cp\u003eEveryone knows someone who says this. They said it forty minutes ago. They are still saying it, cheerfully, as the road narrows and the light goes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI Know a Shortcut\u003c\/em\u003e takes the longest possible route to a light bulb. From a heavy, settled base — the only part of the piece that seems sure of anything — the body breaks into a run of hard turns, each one reversing the last. Nothing here is a curve. A curve would mean easing into a decision. These are commitments: full-speed, sharp-angled, immediately reconsidered, then committed to again in a new direction. The form is fragmented, but it is never timid. Doubt and boldness turn out to be the same gesture repeated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNear the top the piece finally softens, leans out over the room, and looks down — the whole staggering journey resolving into one small pool of warm light. It arrives. It was never going to arrive the way it said it would, and it arrives anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe shadow it casts on the wall is the argument in full: the same jagged path, rendered flat and slightly larger, like a story being retold with the difficult parts left in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a particular kind of confidence that isn't certainty at all. It's the willingness to keep choosing while still unsure — to be wrong in public, correct course, and press on without apology. That's what this piece is made of.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesigned digitally in Blender and fabricated through large-format resin 3D printing across the studio's printer fleet, with cast resin sections and epoxy clay, hand-assembled, hand-painted and finished in high-gloss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eH: 67 inches (5.6 ft)\u003cbr\u003eW: ~30 inches (estimated)\u003cbr\u003eD: ~18 inches (estimated)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 of 1.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlease allow 10-12 weeks for fulfilment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ryan Mercer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57138473140390,"sku":null,"price":8200.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0702\/4597\/4182\/files\/iknowashortcut.png?v=1787480846","url":"https:\/\/www.ryanmercer.ca\/products\/i-know-a-shortcut","provider":"Ryan Mercer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}