Millenia Bench
2024
Reclaimed yellow pine, sand-blasted glass, shellac (insect secretions Kerria lacca)



Annual growth rings, hand cut notches from a 19th century timber joint, scars from when nails were square, a shellac finish, and illustrated glass tiles—all create a surface for contemplating Donna Haraway’s thick present. This expanded temporality senses the “thick and fibrous now” as embedded within long-term, complex and layered human, ecologic and cosmic histories.