Memorial Box

2023, Redwood, Cypress and Indigo Ink

The Fall my mother passed, I paired my work back to a fundamental of furniture making: The Box. These boxes didn't start out as anything more than the simplest way to get through an assignment while managing life's overload. However, the creative process began to take hold and the work took on more meaning. I realized the box is deceptively simple. Able to simultaneously hold the concrete and the conceptual. The box is a paradox; perfectly simple and infinitely complex. The making of anything involves destruction and creation.

Seemingly opposing forces that are intimately linked together, a rolling force of transformation and metamorphosis. The box is a metaphor capable of holding everything from the heavens to my heart.

She was my world and will forever be in me.