Exhibitions,
New Furniture, Work
in Progress
WORKS in PROGRESS
CATOPTRIC REQUEST, Concept
The Furniture Society's call to
its member to create an upholstered object for their juried exhibition, "The
Right Stuff", challenged me to make this work. I was in the process of
finishing Blue Hope and I wanted to build on the surface techniques I had
developed, that of rubber over a scrim covered cushion. The piece would juxtapose
materials and ideas; soft wool versus hard steel, functionality of the top
versus non-functionality of the padded underside. I began making the stool
on September 9, 2001. Two days later the world changed. As I came to terms
with my own feelings I expressed myself through this work; grinding and crafting
the claw like legs; cutting and pulling a half mile of the thick yarn to make
the soft nest-like seat. In the end I named it Catoptric Request as form of
closure. Catoptric meaning, relating to reflected light. In my own way I am
requesting that the light of all knowledge reflect on our world and myself.
September 9, 2001