Bookshelf, 2021
5’x36”x18”
Steel frame, Pine shelves finished with shou sugi ban,a Japanese wood burning/finishing technique and coated with oil based poly.

This piece was inspired by the idea of changing the visual quality of a line, through the inherent strength of steel and the fluidity of welding and fabricating metal structures. Through a study of process surrounding this idea, I worked out a method for for creating this I-beam-esque line quality in steel. With further exploration, I constructed a solid frame structure within this visual language which exploits the strength of welding and the grinders’ ability to hide those welds. All of this was done in pursuit of a piece of furniture that is void of the visual artifacts of production, allowing the line quality to stand on its own as a building block in three dimensional space .