Spiky table and chair
With experience and constant observation, we have started to describe our practice as attempting to transfer inherited meanings (forms, concepts and vision) prevalent in historic and prehistoric art, as a series of analogies and fictions, attempting to be succinct in form, yet when creating the pieces focusing on the processes of manual crafting, on techniques and materials.
We pick up the knife, the chisel everyday, stubbornly facing brainless industrie’s bestiality, where sterility, perfection is the only accepted form, form to conceal the truth. We blindly fight back, by not accepting contemporary, not accepting the design world as it is. Letting ugly and unexpected to be and shine.
We find that most of our pieces do not need to have extraneous descriptions. We want our works to speak for themselves, with their forms, historic references, through their oddity and otherness. In the end the fantasies (our pieces) are meant to be protagonists in space (as characters living in coexistence with its “owners”), neither arbitrary or too amusing, they stand for something human (fragile, errors in its material and form, highlighted imperfections), hopefully creating something as suggestively infinite as the materials they are made out of.
The spiky table and chair, like most other works of Garbage Kids, shows no trace of time in which it might have been created, very easily being part of a fictional collection of “unknown artists”. It plays with the extension of preexisting history set outside of time.
Our pieces use reclaimed timber, gathered from walks in the urban and wild, taking only a little bit and leaving rest behind. The table and chair are made out of walnut board, acacia legs and hundreds of hazelnut spikes. The top of the table and chair is walnut, saved from the Eliava construction market's fire (a chaotic bazaar in the heart of Tbilisi). Though the table board has a burned pattern on the top and bottom, you can still find the more intensely damaged corner that has been rounded by the flame.
The legs of the table are covered in spikes made out of hazelnut. Each stick is covered with beeswax and ash “paint”, giving them a semi-matte effect with tiny specks of ash.The hazelnut sticks were left over from our garden in West-Georgia, where hundreds of our bushes needed thinning out.
Technical information:
The body of table and chair is made out walnut, finished with boiled linseed oil. The legs are acacia, covered in hundreds of spikes made out of discarded hazelnut sticks. The spikes are covered in a mixture of beeswax and ash.
This piece is available.