ACTS OF CONSCIENCE
Artist Buster Simpson commissioned an exhibition of his work through the Fabrication Lab at the College of Built Environments to showcase some of his work as an artist in Seattle. This work included environmental projects, public art work and his installations. The exhibition at CBE was created to showcase consciousness through Buster Simpson’s art. The round table and stools were created to tight together all the work in one space, to share the consciousness with each other.
The stools were designed by Buster Simpson as a tool for gathering but also a tool to represent working as one, as the stools are modular. I later recreated the design from existing stools already created by Buster Simpson by CNCed 4 identical stools from a single sheet of 1” plywood. The design was intended to not waste any part of the plywood, using every piece for the stools.
The table was designed by Jack Bowen (UW) and Buster Simpson to represent equality and coming together as one at the round table. Jack Bowen and I built the table together using L steel beams and elm wood salvaged from UW campus. After polishing, drilling holes and welding together the metal base, we used 8 slabs of the elm to create the table top, matchbooking the grain of the wood together. The table top needed 48 threaded inserts to hold it to the metal base while also jigsawing and routing out the perfect circle, and of course a lot of TLC to finish the job.
Credit - Buster Simpson, Jack Bowen, Jim Nicholls, Raeanna Moore, Bryan Washko
The stools were designed by Buster Simpson as a tool for gathering but also a tool to represent working as one, as the stools are modular. I later recreated the design from existing stools already created by Buster Simpson by CNCed 4 identical stools from a single sheet of 1” plywood. The design was intended to not waste any part of the plywood, using every piece for the stools.
The table was designed by Jack Bowen (UW) and Buster Simpson to represent equality and coming together as one at the round table. Jack Bowen and I built the table together using L steel beams and elm wood salvaged from UW campus. After polishing, drilling holes and welding together the metal base, we used 8 slabs of the elm to create the table top, matchbooking the grain of the wood together. The table top needed 48 threaded inserts to hold it to the metal base while also jigsawing and routing out the perfect circle, and of course a lot of TLC to finish the job.
Credit - Buster Simpson, Jack Bowen, Jim Nicholls, Raeanna Moore, Bryan Washko