Repeat Seat

Name Jessie Stone
Class BFA 2020
Materials Birch, grout, and stoneware clay
Dimensions

30.5 x 17.5 x 25.75 in / 774.7 x 444.5 x 654.05 mm

Formally referencing the phone bench, a once archetypal domestic object that provided a place for tethered gossip, Repeat Seat represents both the uniformity and repetition idealized in post-World War II American suburbs. Relying on a strict grid of handmade ceramic tiles, Repeat Seat presents a juxtaposition of rigid hierarchy and the handmade suggesting that individualism is always in tension with utopian ideals of uniformity.

Edward Scissorhands. Dir. Tim Burton. 20th Century Fox, 1990. Film.