Current Projects

Currently, I am working on two major furniture projects, and two minor ones. My major projects include one I've been working on bit-by-bit for about 4 months. I'm building a pretty basic pine shelf to put my art supplies into, 4' by 5', with a range of shelf sizes, though they're all one foot deep. I have all the materials and tools needed for the project, which include the wood, stain, sanding blocks/paper, an orbital sander (my baby <3), nails, drill, hammer, and battery pack/hands for a clock I am planting about 4'6" up one side of the shelf. The aesthetics of the shelf are simple at this point, but I have begun burning intricate designs into the wood. design will be semi-symetrical and help the clock not look out of place (a time telling device is another thing I lack in my studio).

The other project is a chair made with paper machè and recycled materials, with the addition of insulating foam for help keeping the structure of those pieces that might otherwise collapse. The outside will have a coat of white paper machè, over which will be the final layer: recycled date-due-cards and pictures from books removed from the collection at the Gordon School Library in East Providence, where I spent a few months volunteering. The smaller projects are items I found that I am refurbishing, so as to learn how various types of furniture are structured, and how they deteriorate/how to prevent deterioration in the initial building/designing process. One of them is the chair pictured below, which I found in a heap in the trash outside of a house on Ogden st. and drove home in my girlfriends convertible. At the stage at which this photograph was taken I had stripped out the broken straw-wicker seating, rinsed and scrubbed mold and dust from the whole thing, sanded the wood, and begun hammering in the top, which had been snapped upwards.