Bent Ash Bench
Project Description
This Bent Ash Bench has gone through a lot of variation along its way to completion. It started with an appreciation for the natural world and its forces. The basic structural frame for this bench is intended to suggest a living form bent down by an unseen force, wind or water… This form was intended to suggest a growth outward from an origin. We have all seen trees blown sideways or water plants pulled by the tide. With this piece I wanted to capture something of those natural forces. Each piece of Ash in this bench was bent individually by the application of my force against the inherent properties the wood as a way to embrace the way nature would have done it in the outdoors.
I used to do a lot of camping. While sleeping out in the woods I enjoyed building shelters as opposed to bringing a tent. With this bench I also wanted communicate something of how a shelter, broadly any object for human comfort, is made through the combination of found natural materials and the application of human ingenuity. All of the individual arcs in this work were added to that primary structure of the bent life form to build something more from what was perhaps found.
I used to do a lot of camping. While sleeping out in the woods I enjoyed building shelters as opposed to bringing a tent. With this bench I also wanted communicate something of how a shelter, broadly any object for human comfort, is made through the combination of found natural materials and the application of human ingenuity. All of the individual arcs in this work were added to that primary structure of the bent life form to build something more from what was perhaps found.
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