43x18x18", woodcarved pine, drywall screws, Fall 2025
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The comforting nostalgia of American vernacular furniture styles is subverted through maggot decay. This piece explores themes of disconnect with the past and the sinking feeling of being nauseatingly uncomfortable in what is supposed to comfort you the most. Dinner chairs are places of gathering. When corrupted by rot, they become places you can never return to. This is a feeling painfully familiar to queer people, that places of gathering and familial comfort are aggressively unwelcoming.
