Future Projects | Collage sketches | 2007 - 08'
Dining Room Table Sketch | 2008
Dining Room Table Sketch | 2008
2008
Equal part performance and object - the Dinning Room Table Project is an octagonal table, which is modularly engineered to expand from a minimum of eight to a maximum of sixteen guests. Fabricated of laminated wood, my collage sketch for the Dinning Room Table Project describes an octagonal table stacked with hundreds of colorful thrift store vases on a concave multi-tiered structure. Dominating the space are twenty functional thrift store lamps, hanging above the center of the dinning table.
Aglow with artificial light, the repetition and abundance of the domestic objects render an environment that is overgrown, illusionary and artificial. While my earlier work focused on photographic documentation of sculptural interventions in my own home and small-scale sculptural objects in the gallery, the new work will depend upon the viewer’s interaction with the objects in a real setting. To experience the Dinning Room Table Project fully, viewers must both physically and visually negotiate a proposed series of dinner parties in a precarious and unexpected way. The table being a prop in the performance of a dinner party, the sculpture is designed to call attention to it self and frustrate easy communication between partygoers due to the anxiety that is produced by the sheer mass of objects.
