Ghostwood Chair & Table, 2022
Found driftwood, charcoal (burnt & sealed with oil)
29 x 35 x 56 in. (Chair), 22 x 24 x 26 in. (Table)
Commissioned for the New Orleans Museum of Art

A work inspired by Louisiana/the coastal South, natural disasters, and “ghost forests” aka the watery remains of woodlands poisoned by encroaching sea water. Ghostwood presents an object shaped by water, desaturated by sun, and darkened by fire in the abstracted silhouette of an early American ladder back chair. All driftwood was sourced from the mouths of the Brazos & Mississippi river along the Gulf Coast, burned with a torch, touched up with charcoal, and sealed with Danish oil.