Kitchen Island
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| Dimensions | 5 × 3 × 38 in |
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A welded and bolted steel frame inspired by early 20th century Holyoke utilities, stands on claw-foot inspired hickory cube feet, and supports a 3" thick pine top taken from wood beetle damaged joists in our 140 year old fire station home and shop. The angle steel frame elements are engraved and the deep, character-laden flaws in the wood top are filled with certified lead-free pewter, and a glass tile or two.
The United States is different from much of the rest of the world in how we tear down our past rather than upgrade it to house our new endeavors. Holyoke is one of many towns in the US in which the capital party has left its discards of its profit strewn across the land and lives in search of younger, unsuspecting wombs, and we lose a part of our collective soul in the process. The kitchen island top is made from floor joists in my former fire station home that were no longer safe. Large cracks and holes were commemorated by filling them with lead free pewter. While the steel base is welded, bolted and painted in the fashion of infrastructure in the time of Holyoke’s heyday, the steel base is also engraved with abstract designs representing my own immigrant ancestors' journey here.
