Spencer Daly
Spencer Daly’s work looks to the American blue-collar in giving value to his pieces' simple forms and unluxurious materials. Yet, instead the excessive and sometimes exaggerated labour involved in constructing an object that has a single, simple use.
Spencer Daly’s work looks to the American blue-collar in giving value to his pieces' simple forms and unluxurious materials. Yet, instead the excessive and sometimes exaggerated labour involved in constructing an object that has a single, simple use.
By using simple, familiar, and traditional American construction techniques, the pieces both have familiarity and unfamiliarity. Each piece and part is visible, bearing itself as if demanding to be seen. By matching this with a simple platonic silhouette such as "chair", "table," etc., the work becomes an example where 1 plus 1 equals 11.
With visible details and protruding hardware, the pieces are often inconvenient and even dangerous when approached haphazardly, which demands reverence from the approacher.