Bones & Body Chair

Monday, May 6th, 2013 @ 1:05 pm

chair, furniture, sculpture, wood

Last semester I tackled wood from as many points of view as possible.  I made a wave-shaped bed form using an ArborTech grinder, I made some thin bent kinetic straps, a cradle that rocked diagonally, a creature head from a basswood log, and finally, this chair.  I’d been tempting myself toward furniture for some time, and had yet to make a real leap into sculpting or owning a piece, and this was it.  In about three weeks, I went from log to finished upper-half of a chair (for class it wasn’t to have any legs), and am very proud of the results.  The joints are still strong and tight now, months later, and once I get a chance to build stretchers into the legs it’ll be out in public and usable once again.  Check out some photos below.

Chair in progress

Attaching the legs

In the Sculpture Show