Completed by you.

Machi was born from the exploration of tension. The tension found in wood bending comes from the liveliness of the wood material. Wood wants to stretch, grow, and return to homeostasis. This tension is leveraged to create a work that feels as if it defies gravity, and this side table is only balanced by the colliding tension of two wood bends. There is also tension found in an every day object like the rocking chair. There is tension between start and stop, action and pause, and this is dictated not by the object itself, but the person activating it. In the same way, Machi rocks backward as a rocking chair does. Machi has potential to be balanced and stabilized, but only if a person add a piece of themselves or their home to the structure. Objects are incomplete without the people attached to them, and Machi draws attention to this relationship.