Uneasy Chair Poncho

Title:  Uneasy Chair Poncho
Time/Place: 2020
Sequim, Washington

Centrum Foundation Artist In Residence during Oct 2020 in Port Townsend, Washington

Size: varies
Materials: fabric from discarded street-side, woods-found overstuffed, easy chairs and couches
(hanging system and hanger created from the interior wood and metal structure of a dismantled overstuffed chair found in the woods including paper tag found inside the chair on the springs “3210 Lenoir Chair 0151-3210 0/21/2000”

Details:
This oversized garment is sewn with fabrics from street-side, in-the-woods-found overstuffed chairs and sofas. While worn on site this work is camouflaged by, and unified in part with landscapes often found in the back alleyways of furniture warehouses. Uneasy Chair Poncho embraces the varied stories of the flow of objects in these spaces, wanted then unwanted and then wanted again, purchased for a home, headed to the landfill, winding up in the woods, defining and redefining notions of home. In this work I am turning a big overstuffed lounge chair, an easy chair, into a piece that attempts to sit with the uneasy, collecting materials from the margins to be on edge, a tad disgusted and unsafe, yet at the same time being comforted to some extent.