2022

Carved wood

H: 35.2 x W: 112 x D: 18 in (89.5 x 284.5 x 45.7 cm)

Created in collaboration with Horm, Metamorphosis Shelf is hand carved following organic creeping ivy designs. The work is an attempt to recreate the great old ivy that grew in his childhood home. At the time, he and his siblings used the thick branches that ran alongside the wall as a natural shelf to store their garden toys.

Metamorphosis was hand-carved directly from life-size drawings that the artist made on large Baltic birch wood panels that he developed in Italy with the carpenters at Horm Furniture Company.

The bookshelf formed an important part of the pieces that were exhibited in Sebastian Errazuriz's solo exhibition “Beautiful Premonitions”, which was held at the Cristina Grajales Gallery in New York.