A table is an everyday object with an unusually rich social life. It receives food, tools, letters, flowers, dust and hands. It separates and connects bodies…
Chairs inhabit every room and yet remain almost invisible, the way a wall socket or a doorknob does. We sit on them, lean against them, drag them across floors…
The ladder has long occupied an uneasy place in the visual imagination. Neither building nor sculpture in the strict sense, it belongs to the category of…
Windows have always served as mediators between interior and exterior life. From the leaded panes of colonial weatherboard cottages to the floor-to-ceiling…
A door is never just a panel of wood, metal, or glass. It is a decision point, a moment when the body agrees to change state. Standing before a closed door,…
For most of its recent history, drawing has been a practice of modest dimensions and portable surfaces. Sheets of paper, gathered into folios and bound into…
The candle begins where the painting ends. A painted surface holds still on the wall, but a lit wick starts to slip the moment flame touches it. Wax softens,…
A feather appears to belong to the air. It catches a current, settles on a surface, and carries an image of movement even when it is completely still. Yet its…
A folding screen is a practical object with an unusually rich visual life. It can separate a room, soften a view, shelter a body or redirect movement, yet its…
A mark begins as a physical event. A hand presses, drags, scratches, stains, wipes, layers or interrupts a surface, leaving evidence of movement behind. Before…