An Inanimate Prosthesis
The concept of having a prosthetic was consuming much of my thought process at this time in my education. It came to me that prosthetics were something exclusively human; an inanimate object used to compensate for, or improve, a function of our physical human biology. So how we might make a “prosthetic” for something inanimate?
A broken arm chair was my selected “patient” to receive an emphasized replacement or improvement, that would allow it to function again. The chair was given an exoskeleton, designed to restore function to the chair without using adhesive of any kind. In this case, the industrial aesthetic of the welded half inch roundstock, drastically opposes the weathered hardwood, but achieves a structural integrity far beyond the level of any adhesive repair. A prosthesis which not only restores, but boundlessly improves.