SCORCHED AUTUMN LEAF CHAIR
The different seasons give different shades & different shapes to the foliage around. During the monsoon the leaves are green and fresh but during the Fall the same leaves dry up and crumble to the ground. Inspired from these fallen leaves, is this seating sculpture handcrafted by joining small pieces of teak with special attention to the ergonomics for human comfort.
We humans are honing the blade for our own execution. The ongoing droughts, forest fires, floods and other tyrannies are just a glimpse of our plight in the years to come. We need to be pre-emptive in atoning towards our responsibilities and be assertive in our fight against ourselves or else we will contrive the irrevocable. Our subservience to ignorance has cost us gravely.
The scorched autumn leaf chair is a piece of this exact expression. The bright, contrasting crevices represent veins of hope within a state of urgency and melancholy of our destructive nature. The burn is to be felt within hearts as we have only exacerbated our arduousness. The black ashy edges are a testament to the human footprint on nature and the little time we have left as our reality begins to crumble like firewood.
The piece by designer Asad Firdosy comes at the time of severe drought in central part of India, as a sculpture of our frightening reality.
