JOYCE LIN
Photograph by Rob Chron.
It is the central dilemma of our age: though we humans are part of nature, we have created for ourselves an increasingly artificial environment that seems destined to self-destruct. Joyce Lin’s work is devoted to exploring the anxiety-provoking conditions of this new era, which has come to be called the Anthropocene: “I have become both disturbed and fixated with the opaqueness of industrialized society, where modes of production and disposal are obscured to the public and the impacts of supposedly disposable materials like plastic, foam, and resins last far beyond time scales that we as humans can fathom. My work is driven by this paradox of permanence and impermanence, opaqueness and transparency, that marks our modern materials, processes, and attitudes.”¹
This impulse has led her to extraordinary feats of forensic making, like her Skinned Chair (featured in the Objects: USA 2020 catalogue), in which an antique object is painstakingly peeled with a scroll saw, and its surface laid atop a steel and epoxy clay Armature.
Skinned Table in found walnut furniture, brass, and gold acrylic paint. Designed and made by Joyce Lin, USA, 2020.
15" L x 20" W x 23" H
38.1cm L x 50.8cm W x 58.4cm H
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