AT HOME IN THEIR SKIN

Chair 1 and Chair 2, later followed by Stool 1, are the first installments of an ongoing project that utilizes scrap leather and suede in the creation of a species of monster that lives on the line between object and body. The active building phase of creating these creatures gave them their volume and presence, but it was the months of slow and careful scrap collection preceding the assembly that determined their size, color, pattern, and overall personality. Recycled material is the ultimate wild-card collaborator. The type of furniture people discard and the leather scrap available shift with the seasons and with new trends, leaving those factors as much out of my control as the scar tissue and body hair trapped in the body casts supporting these characters. The chair legs themselves appear as fragmented self portraits, as they’ve all been cast from molds of my own torso and limbs, but with deeper examination show distortions and signs that they haven’t been human for a very long time. Furniture from the curb, Hydrocal, Recycled Pewter, Scrap leather 2023-2024