For the second half of the "Seating in Context" project, we were instructed to look up the means of the word, "duality." After reading about duality and getting a better understanding of the word, we then wrote a one-page paper over our duality relationship with another person in our life, not knowing we would later be making our chair about this person. For my duality essay, I wrote about my friend who just left for the US Navy. He is tall, strong, and protective. One quality that brings him and I together, which I did not mention in my essay but I incorporated in my chair, was the symbol of the anchor. I am in Delta Gamma sorority and with him being in the Navy, we both share the anchor. When we started hanging out, we both seemed to have this symbol on everything.
Like the first chair, we could not use any type of adhesive to hold the chair together. We had to maintain the idea of using folds and slots and other various methods. Instead of having to unfold into a 4x4' sheet, however, we could use all the cardboard we wanted and could cut away parts as desired. This gave me a lot more ideas and opened up more room for experimentation. Starting with paper models and orthogonal sketches, I finally started playing with cardboard to make different connections for my final chair. After much critique, I came up with my final 5'4" chair.
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