Cranking Them Out

I am currently working with recycled and found materials to create furniture. Recently, I acquired several shopping carts from Home Depot and as a result, I am inspired to produce more work. With furniture, I enjoy the comparison between form and function for an object present in our daily lives. I feel like furniture, specifically chairs, stools, and ottomans do not receive enough appreciation despite being there through thick and thin--the great times and the bad. We sit on these objects every day without taking a second glance to its characteristics or to ask where it was manufactured. However, at some point, we went to a furniture or thrift store to pick something out to accommodate our lifestyles and comfort level at an affordable price.

During my undergraduate studies, I created chairs out of extruded steel fencing, aluminum pipes, pasta cans, trash cans, garden hose, and recycled detergent drums. Today, I see myself producing more refined work and I hope that it comes across as such. I want to take more ownership of the items I produce but I find it difficult to express why I create objects. It derives from a true passion for minimalism, witty sophistication, and challenges. I love reading about designers from Charles and Ray Eames to Ron Arad to Karim Rashid and Bertoia Diamond chairs, Adirondack chairs, and everything in between. I would love to see each artist out there to create a chair, just to visualize their interpretation of the concept.