Tortured Furniture series, 2019
Series of wood furniture subjected to “pain” or “torture” results in surface and structural damage. Then the subsequent repair is a part of the fabrication process. For example, a piece from the series is a set of two chairs I shot with a handgun, threw off a cliff, and burned with a torch. After which, the furniture is “rehabilitated” to a functional state by welding steel bars that serve as crutches or prosthetic “limbs,” replacing parts lost in the “torture” process. I completed the piece by giving it a way to “protect” itself through a steel element - here it is finials.
Process video below
