Wingate ite residency 2016
Works during Wingate ITE Artist in Residency 2016 with Center For Art in Wood, Philadelphia, USA
Material: various wood
Process: kerf bending
Year: 2016
In 2016, I received this incredible opportunity to be a resident fellow at Wingate ITE Artist in Residency with Museum for Art in Wood in Philadelphia, USA. I just came out from my second solo show at Serindia Gallery in Bangkok, where my entire body of work was made using bent lamination and freeform bending techniques. When I arrived at the residency, I asked myself, “Was there another wood bending technique I wanted to practice, and it had to be the technique I had never done before?” I remember seeing my mentor give a kerf-bending demo on a tablesaw in graduate school, but I had never done it. So I asked myself about doing an exploration series on this technique and seeing where it would take me.
This series of explorations influences everything I’ve been doing recently. Kerf bending made me rethink and reshaped my perception of Woodworking. It has given me a great challenge as a Woodworker to see how other people can interpret Woodworking through seeing work created by this technique. To challenge people, though, that a table saw can create such fine and delicate works. It has humbled me and pushed me through my limits. It gave me confidence and made me much more intimate with my medium and machines.
Luna Phases
