04/06/2025
Voids. The space left when a loved one dies is often hard to fill and truthfully is never refilled perfectly when you try. I've stated in previous posts what this collection means (and if you've checked out our newly updated website you've read a bit more about each piece in the context of the collection); and this collection is inspired by my late paternal grandmother. Her death was the first familial one that hit me in a way that I'll always remember as it happened when I was an adult. Since my childhood, I've a lot experienced of losses. When I was a kid one of my closest friends drowned, so, I was introduced to grief very early on and it's stayed with me since. If you know me personally or attend class with me or a talk I've given you've likely heard me wax about grief and loss. As I look back and forward on my life and the lives, I've interacted with I remark on the holes left in the future where the people I miss would be, the conversations and experiences we’ll never share in the way I hoped. This landscape of holes is incredibly vivid to me but shifts my perspective in a myriad of ways. While, I see a lot of losses and absences, I also see possibilities for what or who could fill them. Seeing holes pushes me to ask new questions and observe what’s missing and the impact of absence. While the whole collection could be seen as inspired by grief, Chair No. 10 really encapsulates the hole that grief leaves, a bit literally. A few chairs are inspired by the voids and cracks in the designs of the combs, but No.10 really relies on that as the main inspiration. While the story behind this chair might be the austere, this has been the most popular chair so far, which really reinforces that idea that grief and love exist on the same spectrum.
Chair no. 10 is now available on our site. You can order one today via the link in our bio or email us at [email protected] to customize your chair.
