Australian Red Mallee Burl, steel and black epoxy inlays.
23 lbs. 22” x 27” x 12”
Arbitrary & Capricious examines the boundary between reasoned structure and forced intervention. The eucalyptus burl reads as precedent—an ordered system whose complexity emerges through continuous adaptation. Penetrating this rational field are crystalline like steel rods inserted at irregular intervals and depths. They do not emerge from the grain or respond to the wood’s internal logic; they interrupt it. Each insertion behaves less like a structural requirement and more like an external decision imposed after the fact. These elements create a condition of managed disruption—forces contained within the structure but never reconciled. The system holds, though unevenly, absorbing interventions that lack justification or proportion.
Australian Red Mallee Burl, steel and black epoxy inlays.
23 lbs. 22” x 27” x 12”
Arbitrary & Capricious examines the boundary between reasoned structure and forced intervention. The eucalyptus burl reads as precedent—an ordered system whose complexity emerges through continuous adaptation. Penetrating this rational field are crystalline like steel rods inserted at irregular intervals and depths. They do not emerge from the grain or respond to the wood’s internal logic; they interrupt it. Each insertion behaves less like a structural requirement and more like an external decision imposed after the fact. These elements create a condition of managed disruption—forces contained within the structure but never reconciled. The system holds, though unevenly, absorbing interventions that lack justification or proportion.
