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I think this table is just plain fun. (but I may be biased).
Like an earlier work, the impetus for building this piece grew from a desire not to throw several hundred dead batteries into a landfill. Although my work is not overtly environmental, I am often fascinated by the relationships between artificial and natural objects. It was just impossible for me to look at that box of 9-volts, and not think: material.
This piece, however, is more thematic and less formal than the earlier one. I tried to make the table reminiscent of tables made from geodes. In order to carry off the conceit, I used a rather playful style. The elongated oval shape, the horizontal striations formed by the glass and inlaid Maple and Wenge strips, the tapered legs with ball feet, and the D-cell stand-offs for the glass top all work together to give the piece a sort of quaint retro-futuristic quality appropriate, I think, to the attempt to coerce a modern waste-product into a mineral formation.
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Coffee Table, 2000
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Mahogany, Wenge, Birch, Maple, Glass, Depleted Alkyline Batteries, Plywood, Fir, Paint
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(20 x 71 x 28 inches)
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$2145
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