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NORM


Medium: Furniture/Object
Academic work done at Cal Poly SLO
Year: 2018
Awards: Milano Grand Prize, Vellum Furniture Competition
Advisor: Doug Jackson


Norm is a chair on an adventure across time and space to collect as many uses as possible. Rather than associating with one primary use, Norm is impressionable, bearing traces of all the uses it encounters. By physically representing the less obvious uses, they cannot be ignored or forgotten. As we engage with Norm’s various functions, we cannot avoid confrontation with the multiple realities of a chair. All of Norm’s functions are part of its identity, regardless of whether or not they are a part of our own understanding of a chair.