Perhaps the
questioning of typologies should rank first whenever faced with the possibility
of creating a new functional object. Especially so when making what you might
call a piece of furniture. I find it to be one of the few interesting avenues
to approach furniture at all.
Garbage Chair represents a small exchange between the typologies of garbage cans and chairs. Characteristics of both are borrowed to make up an object insufficient to fit either. There exists a beautiful ambivalence within things or beings that attempt to put on several hats at once. Whether that means fitting into contradictory categories, joining mutually exclusive affiliations or simply rejecting the relegation to any one species. In this instance, I would say we end up not with a discernible piece of furniture but with an object. I read the object as knowingly ambiguous, as hiding in plain sight. It performs coherence, stability and receptiveness. I find it to be inviting with a threatening sense of familiarity, cloaking itself in plainness and a static uniformity.
Garbage Chair represents a small exchange between the typologies of garbage cans and chairs. Characteristics of both are borrowed to make up an object insufficient to fit either. There exists a beautiful ambivalence within things or beings that attempt to put on several hats at once. Whether that means fitting into contradictory categories, joining mutually exclusive affiliations or simply rejecting the relegation to any one species. In this instance, I would say we end up not with a discernible piece of furniture but with an object. I read the object as knowingly ambiguous, as hiding in plain sight. It performs coherence, stability and receptiveness. I find it to be inviting with a threatening sense of familiarity, cloaking itself in plainness and a static uniformity.