wood
Wonder Woman Spoon
2022
26” x 6”
Milled, machined, carved, sanded, and dyed poplar
Cleaned, dyed, knit, and knotted cotton
Metal finding
Photo by Jacob Wall
Anansi Stool
2023
17” x 23” by 17”
Milled, laminated, power carved, textured, and painted cherry
Photo by Jacob Wall
Interlacements (sweeping, retting, and stick figures)
2024
Dimensions variable, each figure ~3’ tall
Milled, machined, steam bent, and finished poplar, scoured, mordanted, and dyed linen and raffia,
Lashed and cinched, tall grass lawn clippings from Norfolk, Connecticut, Indigo and weld
Netted, plaited, and wound jute holding paper mulberry bark from my backyard in Richmond, Virginia, milled, turned and finished poplar, various textile tools from needles to shuttles
Found, drilled, sawn, dyed and rejoined stick from Norfolk, Connecticut, cleaned fleece from a goat named george.
As an object maker I struggle with the double consciousness of knowing I am a craftsperson, but the world interprets my work as sculpture. Starting from the action of piercing, I asked my material what the craft intervention is instead of the sculptural intervention. The resulting figures are a tool for retting ( breaking down) mulberry fiber, a hanger for a broom, and an attempt at arboreal necromancy.
photo jacob by jacob wall
Fraternal figures
2024
105” from one end to the other, about 40” when they balance each other out
Cleaned, Mordanted, Naturally dyed, twined, and woven round and flat second hand basket reeds, and sisal from lowes, glass trade beads,
sunk, raised, planished, hammered, separated, and patinated copper, riveted brass, and a really big sienna pigment rock from the bottom of a lake in Connecticut.
Fresh and reduced indigo, osage, annatto, a little bit of copper pickle in the dye pot to change the colors
When I look at the mythology of brotherhood, I am struck quickly over the head with the violence, specifically in the founding of Rome. I don’t want to alienate myself from my brother, my mother gave her children the namesakes of Justice and Truth, and I want the world to hold us close. The inception of this piece was a copper pitcher, raised from a flat disk to a level of use, then separated and rejoined through the intervention of my language of serenity - fiber.
photo by jacob wall
& for a second she turned the sky pink
2024
18 x 18 x 32
Milled machined, glued, cut, sanded, painted, sanded, dyed and sanded again ash wood
Cut, pieced, stitched,stuffed, and tufted scrap denim
Photo by jacob wall.
Carpetbagger (I dream of rivers of molten bronze, and a city of sleeping giants.)
2024
28” x 28”
Woven excerpt from Lee’s Surrender overshot coverlet, chemically and naturally dyed cotton, hand spun yarn made with fiber from santiago the alpaca, george the goat, possum the sheep, and silk hankies,
acid dye that glows in the dark if I try hard enough and a paper mulberry branch from my back yard.
Photo by Jacob Wall
& Only the Wise Can Undo the Knot
2025
23” x 23” x 29” 17” seat height
Milled, machined, joined, power carved, hand shaved, sanded, painted, and sanded again ash wood
cleaned, PrEPd, naturally dyed, wound, warped, threaded, sleyed, woven and brocaded sisal rope, and twine
hand spun, scoured, mordanted, naturally and chemically dyed, caked, wound, and woven linen yarn
Synthetic pink polyester thread
Marigold yellow, julep, and bayberry milk paint
Indigo, logwood (campeche), cochineal (cochinilla), myrobalan, achiote (annatto), hibiscus
Turquoise and Fuschia mx dyes
A chair made in response to the wisdom knot Akan power stool meditating on doing and undoing. As a spinster, weaver, dyer, etc where does that leave me? This chair was made through faith in the natural world being able to support my weight at the end of the day. My reality is a marvelous one and I just want to make folkloric objects from my personal mythology. I am imperfect so why would u ever demand the same from my material or my objects?
Photo by Jacob Wall and David Handforth
Sankofa table
2025
28” x 18” x 12”
Milled, machined, textured, glued, sanded, painted, and sanded again maple
Hot forged, formed, chased, repousséd, and patinated copper
Illuminating figures (sentinel & paragon)
7' x 14" x 21"
2025
milled, laminated, carved, steam bent, sanded, painted, and sanded white oak
sunk, angle raised, fold formed, hammered, coined, and fabricated, brass, white quartz
cleaned, mordanted, naturally, chemically dyed, twined, woven and knotted basket reeds, sisal & silk gauze, nylon covered electric cord, filament light bulb
a lamp as tall as my brother with a light bulb at the height of my heart. The lamp functions as a pendulum. Pendulums are simple divination tools where a crystal is suspended in space and then can answer yes or no questions by swinging one way or another. This lamp feels like the logical result of making furniture to answer questions and bring the spirit of the trees into my home.
photo by jacob wall and david handforth
2022
26” x 6”
Milled, machined, carved, sanded, and dyed poplar
Cleaned, dyed, knit, and knotted cotton
Metal finding
Photo by Jacob Wall
2023
17” x 23” by 17”
Milled, laminated, power carved, textured, and painted cherry
Photo by Jacob Wall
2024
Dimensions variable, each figure ~3’ tall
Milled, machined, steam bent, and finished poplar, scoured, mordanted, and dyed linen and raffia,
Lashed and cinched, tall grass lawn clippings from Norfolk, Connecticut, Indigo and weld
Netted, plaited, and wound jute holding paper mulberry bark from my backyard in Richmond, Virginia, milled, turned and finished poplar, various textile tools from needles to shuttles
Found, drilled, sawn, dyed and rejoined stick from Norfolk, Connecticut, cleaned fleece from a goat named george.
As an object maker I struggle with the double consciousness of knowing I am a craftsperson, but the world interprets my work as sculpture. Starting from the action of piercing, I asked my material what the craft intervention is instead of the sculptural intervention. The resulting figures are a tool for retting ( breaking down) mulberry fiber, a hanger for a broom, and an attempt at arboreal necromancy.
photo jacob by jacob wall
2024
105” from one end to the other, about 40” when they balance each other out
Cleaned, Mordanted, Naturally dyed, twined, and woven round and flat second hand basket reeds, and sisal from lowes, glass trade beads,
sunk, raised, planished, hammered, separated, and patinated copper, riveted brass, and a really big sienna pigment rock from the bottom of a lake in Connecticut.
Fresh and reduced indigo, osage, annatto, a little bit of copper pickle in the dye pot to change the colors
When I look at the mythology of brotherhood, I am struck quickly over the head with the violence, specifically in the founding of Rome. I don’t want to alienate myself from my brother, my mother gave her children the namesakes of Justice and Truth, and I want the world to hold us close. The inception of this piece was a copper pitcher, raised from a flat disk to a level of use, then separated and rejoined through the intervention of my language of serenity - fiber.
photo by jacob wall
2024
18 x 18 x 32
Milled machined, glued, cut, sanded, painted, sanded, dyed and sanded again ash wood
Cut, pieced, stitched,stuffed, and tufted scrap denim
Photo by jacob wall.
2024
28” x 28”
Woven excerpt from Lee’s Surrender overshot coverlet, chemically and naturally dyed cotton, hand spun yarn made with fiber from santiago the alpaca, george the goat, possum the sheep, and silk hankies,
acid dye that glows in the dark if I try hard enough and a paper mulberry branch from my back yard.
Photo by Jacob Wall
2025
23” x 23” x 29” 17” seat height
Milled, machined, joined, power carved, hand shaved, sanded, painted, and sanded again ash wood
cleaned, PrEPd, naturally dyed, wound, warped, threaded, sleyed, woven and brocaded sisal rope, and twine
hand spun, scoured, mordanted, naturally and chemically dyed, caked, wound, and woven linen yarn
Synthetic pink polyester thread
Marigold yellow, julep, and bayberry milk paint
Indigo, logwood (campeche), cochineal (cochinilla), myrobalan, achiote (annatto), hibiscus
Turquoise and Fuschia mx dyes
A chair made in response to the wisdom knot Akan power stool meditating on doing and undoing. As a spinster, weaver, dyer, etc where does that leave me? This chair was made through faith in the natural world being able to support my weight at the end of the day. My reality is a marvelous one and I just want to make folkloric objects from my personal mythology. I am imperfect so why would u ever demand the same from my material or my objects?
Photo by Jacob Wall and David Handforth
2025
28” x 18” x 12”
Milled, machined, textured, glued, sanded, painted, and sanded again maple
Hot forged, formed, chased, repousséd, and patinated copper
7' x 14" x 21"
2025
milled, laminated, carved, steam bent, sanded, painted, and sanded white oak
sunk, angle raised, fold formed, hammered, coined, and fabricated, brass, white quartz
cleaned, mordanted, naturally, chemically dyed, twined, woven and knotted basket reeds, sisal & silk gauze, nylon covered electric cord, filament light bulb
a lamp as tall as my brother with a light bulb at the height of my heart. The lamp functions as a pendulum. Pendulums are simple divination tools where a crystal is suspended in space and then can answer yes or no questions by swinging one way or another. This lamp feels like the logical result of making furniture to answer questions and bring the spirit of the trees into my home.
photo by jacob wall and david handforth