Hello hope you all are having a great week!

So for my final project in my 3D design class we were takes with making a piece of art using a piece of furniture that we found at a thrift store. We were given the restraints of needing to compose it within a rectangular frame, and we could only select one color to paint it. I went to salvation army to find a piece of furniture, and when I got there I immediately spotted a chair sitting in the corner of the store. It was looking a bit sad, it was quite worn down but still sturdy and standing tall.

I decided to take it home, but before we started brainstorming we were asked to consider the narrative and character of the piece that we found as we made it into something new. And while I was planning it dawned on me how under appreciated chairs tend to be. They act as our literal support everyday. But are often are looked over and forgotten, having a singular purpose and then being discarded. So I started asking myself, if a chair could choose what it’d like to be what would it choose? I was still thinking about this as I was breaking the chair down during class. And as I was breaking it apart the seat of the chair naturally split. Leaving a shape that reminded me of a boat. Everything else sort of fell into place after that.

I cut up the spokes of the chair and positioned them so that they looked like a sail. Then took cardboard and made waves. To add more movement I angled the boat upward, this also added a more uplifting and almost victorious narrative to the piece. As it started looking like it was winning over waves. Finally I chose a dark blue to cover the whole thing, I wanted the blue to help support the idea of waves and the ocean within the piece.

Overall I really enjoyed this project, It showed me a new way to approach brainstorming and coming up with ideas. And I’m overall happy with what came out of it. I’m typically a person to meticulously plans out the pieces that I make but it was refreshing to let the process and the materials speak for themselves this time.

Thanks for reading!
Emma 🙂