Thursday, September 17, 2009

Attention! Zombie Chair!

Keywords: environmental artist, land sculpture
Sources: Hongtao Zhou

Zombie chair! Out for your wood scraps! Oozing sawdust and pure carnage! Designer Hongtao Zhou, who we found playing with ice, decided to get Holiday on a broken, abandoned chair he found on the streets in Madison, Wisconsin. The result: chair of the undead, risen from the swamp and demanding the chance to sit in your living room looking creepy. Zhou created the drippy effect with wood scraps and sawdust (and probably some monster blood and glue). Expect this chair on your front porch Halloween night, demanding all the sweet linseed oil you can muster. Happy creepy chair night, everyone, happy monster night.

Other than his new design of zombie chair, Zhou is actually an environmental sculptor who uses ice to create sculpture a lot, which is a little bit like Andy Goldsworthy. This choice of material may be originated from a tradition of his hometown in Harbin, China, which is a city famous for its ice sculpture exhibition during winter time.

Ice and Snow Furniture, 2009

Untitled, 2009

Latern Pray, 2009

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