Working Art

My best friend once said that I could empathize with a chair if I wanted to

I didn’t realize I was learning a new language at first. I thought I was just looking at furniture.

It started practically— curiosity about materials, about why certain pieces felt inevitable in a room while others felt loud or temporary. Then it widened. I learned that many of the objects we now call “classics” aren’t frozen in time at all, but actively…