Pillar Chair

How do we draw the line between this and that? Critically speaking, we have all been blinded by manmade definitions and forced differences, which prevent us from seeing the true nature of things. Artist Tai Han-Hong said “I want to shift the existing boundaries or simply make new ones to highlight what has been hidden on either side of the boundary. I do not wish to offer a fixed answer, but rather to return to the point of departure, to a world before any definition was given.”
Rather than gluing its parts together, Pillar Chair has its four legs carved out of one piece of wood. The artist transforms discarded wooden pillars into furniture as an attempt to retain “the changes”. The so-called boundaries—big vs. small, new vs. old, as well as different names, appear to be mutually contradictory. If only we were willing to let go, we would be able to see the chair as what it was—a tree.