| For a period in college, I became very interested in held breath, and giving inanimate objects human traits. I was looking at the artist Rachel Whiteread, who was casting negative space, but I chose a more labor-intense process than casting. I laminated and carved plywood to make this piece. I chose a stool because there were several in the wood shop and it seemed like a common enough object to go unnoticed. By giving it a slight swell, and this title, I intended to imply that a stool had been alive and ITS negative space was more than dead air. |
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