wood, waxed string, 32” x 32” x 20”, 2004
The Loveseat series began with the discovery of several, wooden kitchen chairs in a dumpster. I rearranged and distorted the familiar forms, using simple methods and introducing intimate materials, such as leather, hide, hair and sinew, to suggest familial, intimate, and/or dysfunctional relationships between their implied occupants. There manipulation has been guided by a desire to evoke the experience of individuality and conformity, strength and frailty, connection and isolation, and the experience of pleasure and pain.
wood, waxed string, 32” x 32” x 20”, 2004
wood, leather, 32” x 20” x 20”, 2004
wood, waxed string, rawhide, 32” x 60” x 60”, 2004
wood, waxed string, rawhide, 32” x 34” x 32”, 2004
wood, synthetic hair, dimensions variable, 2005