Guin

2018
Fiddleback ash, Port Orford cedar, boxwood, and leather
7" x 21" x 6"

I want to understand why things are a particular way, and then make objects that playfully invert, rearrange, or distort that expectation. Guin is built with traditional cabinetmaking techniques, applied to a new geometry: a rhomboid. From a different angle, canonical reference points disappear. A play on perspective, this cabinet is also a tribute to Ursula Le Guin, who gave me a new angle from which to view life.

Guin is a little desktop cabinet with a bookend and a drawer. The drawer is through-dovetailed at a compound angle, with a veneer applied over the front, giving the illusion of a half-blind dovetails. The carcase is solid wood and doweled. The back panel is veneered.