DUBH
DUBH
DUBH is the Irish word for black or darkness, and it's also the name of an exhibition we're participating in at the moment. We are showing 'Personhood', a chair made from French and Irish walnut with a dark leather cushion.
The starting point for the chair was a wish to make the chair relate directly to the human body. All chairs necessarily do this by the fact of supporting the body, but the intention was to make this more explicit. The chair provides a place for the body, a space to rest and be with oneself. In form it derives from both cradles and coffins - both resting places for the body at times of transformation. The back of the chair is constructed somewhat in the manner of a boat - steambent rabbetted thin planks, fixed with brass pins.
It is currently in the exhibition 'DUBH - dialogues in black' at the American Irish Historical Society on Fifth Avenue in New York.
DUBH is the Irish word for black or darkness, and it's also the name of an exhibition we're participating in at the moment. We are showing 'Personhood', a chair made from French and Irish walnut with a dark leather cushion.
The starting point for the chair was a wish to make the chair relate directly to the human body. All chairs necessarily do this by the fact of supporting the body, but the intention was to make this more explicit. The chair provides a place for the body, a space to rest and be with oneself. In form it derives from both cradles and coffins - both resting places for the body at times of transformation. The back of the chair is constructed somewhat in the manner of a boat - steambent rabbetted thin planks, fixed with brass pins.
It is currently in the exhibition 'DUBH - dialogues in black' at the American Irish Historical Society on Fifth Avenue in New York.