Sanding these tables and chairs, to the point of obsession, almost, was a lengthy process that allowed me to open up a mental space in which to de-familiarise the familiar, and to gradually disintegrate my fixation on their traditional function and form. Through the experimentation and altering process, each piece managed to acquire a creepy agency all of its own, emphasising, a condition of uncertainty and dislocation. No longer functional, they maintain a peculiar sence of familiarity and estrangement, questioning our presumptions that things are, as they appear to be. A dark playfulness exudes from each that is distinct and unsettling; an un-nerving effect, intended, to delve into the shadowy realms of our subconscious.
