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CADmares are what my technologist peers call their nightmares, when they have been spending endless hours working on a project and the images begin to burn themselves into their minds. We would share stories about falling in a dark model space, where there was no ceiling and no floor; in some cases, places that would defy physics. Sometimes in these dreams we were pulled by marionette strings that would reach to oblivion. In most of these dark fantasies we would be obsessing over details of the work that had absolutely consumed us; inevitably storing those problems in our subconscious, where we could continue to chase them.

 

The CADmare is something that bonds people who have dedicated themselves to achieving goals in techno-space, reaching a point of near or absolute insanity. We all want to be hirable, but beyond that we want to be efficient so that people want to keep us around. The only way to reach that efficiency is to keep up with a world (both real and abstract) that is ever-changing. That is the geek’s manifesto. Once you go down that path, it is hard to stop. The idea of stopping means losing the momentum that has been carrying you through all the nights you lost sleep. The less you practice, the less you stay afloat.

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The different colors of thread (black, navy, cyan, chartreuse, med-green, dark-green, pink and red) are representative of conventions in layering systems used when working with CAD software. 

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