{"id":448837,"date":"2025-01-21T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/?p=448837"},"modified":"2025-01-21T18:25:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T00:25:43","slug":"joyce-lin-sculptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2025\/01\/joyce-lin-sculptures\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncanny Objects by Joyce Lin Blur Distinctions Between Reality and the Fantastical"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull is-style-default entry-header is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-5 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\"><figure class=\"colo-post-featured-image wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1396\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-8.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"a sculpture of a piece of cake on a plate with a knife, but the cake is sliced open and appears like a hunk of tree, with raw wood inside and bark on the outside\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-8.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-8-640x447.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-8-960x670.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-8-768x536.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-8-1536x1072.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Fir Mignon&#8221; (2023), wood, epoxy clay, oil paint, 8.75 x 8.75 x 3 inches. All images courtesy of Joyce Lin, shared with permission<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group post-title is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-2 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\"><h1 class=\"alignfull wp-block-post-title\">Uncanny Objects by Joyce Lin Blur Distinctions Between Reality and the Fantastical<\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull post-meta is-layout-flex wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2025-01-21T13:00:00-06:00\">January 21, 2025<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a class=\"category-art\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/category\/art\/\" rel=\"tag\">Art<\/a><a class=\"category-design\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/category\/design\/\" rel=\"tag\">Design<\/a><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-author-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/author\/kmothes\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"wp-block-post-author-name__link\">Kate Mothes<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull post-share-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-3 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-outermost-social-sharing has-visible-labels has-icon-color is-style-logos-only is-layout-flex wp-block-social-sharing-is-layout-flex\"><li style=\"color: #1c1e0d; 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Lin says in a statement, &#8220;where modes of production and disposal are often obscured to the public, yet people have more technology than ever to make their imagined worlds a reality.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-4-960x960.jpg\" alt=\"two views of a sculptural chair that looks as though it has been carved directly out of the middle of a tree, with bark on the back\" class=\"wp-image-448841\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Wood Chair in Oak&#8221; (2024), oil paint, epoxy clay, plywood, MDF, and wood, 16.5 x 16.25 x 34.75 inches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lin&#8217;s uncanny pieces meld form and function, taking the recognizable shapes of furniture and food and transforming them into playful meditations on mass production and consumption. She often uses organic materials like wood, augmenting the surfaces with synthetic mediums like epoxy, resin, and oil paint to preserve their appearance in perpetuity. Some works, like the <em>Wooden Chair <\/em>series, are entirely composed of engineered materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I love to dissect and understand things, and my works often feature objects\u2014usually a chair\u2014sliced open to expose an inner structure; to express an inner truth, so to speak,&#8221; Lin tells Colossal. She manipulates the structures extensively, blurring the reality of what she describes as the &#8220;insides&#8221; and the &#8220;outsides,&#8221; so the composition takes on a fantastical quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t think they\u2019re so convincing when you really zoom in, so it\u2019s interesting to see people assume they\u2019re somehow grown or AI-generated, even though they take an incredible amount of manual labor and time to create,&#8221; Lin adds. &#8220;I often think about distortions in our perception of reality, (which is) probably why people keep sending me those is-it-cake videos.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The artist is currently working toward a solo exhibition later this year at <a href=\"https:\/\/r-and-company.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">R &amp; Company<\/a>, and you can explore more on her <a href=\"https:\/\/joyce-lin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jolime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"1269\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-1-960x1269.jpg\" alt=\"a sculptural chair in which wooden pieces like the seat, leds, and back, are individually encased in plexiglass\" class=\"wp-image-448838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-1-960x1269.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-1-640x846.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-1-768x1015.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-1-1162x1536.jpg 1162w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-1-1550x2048.jpg 1550w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-1-scaled.jpg 1937w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Exploded Chair&#8221; (2019), maple and acrylic, 16 x 16 x 35 inches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"758\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-7-960x758.jpg\" alt=\"three wooden banana sculptures\" class=\"wp-image-448843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-7-960x758.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-7-640x505.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-7-768x606.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-7-1536x1213.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-7.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Woodnanas&#8221; (2024) wood, steel, polyester resin, and epoxy clay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"1078\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-3-960x1078.jpg\" alt=\"a sculptural chair that looks as though it has been carved directly out of the middle of a tree, with bark on the back\" class=\"wp-image-448840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-3-960x1078.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-3-640x719.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-3-768x862.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-3-1368x1536.jpg 1368w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-3-1824x2048.jpg 1824w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-3.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Wood Chair in Ash&#8221; (2024), oil paint, epoxy clay, plywood, MDF, and wood. Beetles: epoxy, wire, 16.5 x 16.25 x 34.75 inches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"1011\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-10-960x1011.jpeg\" alt=\"a detail of a sculptural chair that looks as though it has been carved directly out of the middle of a tree, with bark on the back, and a small beetle crawling along the edge\" class=\"wp-image-448847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-10-960x1011.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-10-640x674.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-10-768x808.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-10-1459x1536.jpeg 1459w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-10.jpeg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Detail of &#8220;Wood Chair in Ash&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-2-960x1269.jpg\" alt=\"a sculptural chair that looks as though it has long fur or dreads, like a komondor or similar dog\" class=\"wp-image-448839\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Root Chair&#8221; (2023), found driftwood and walnut stain, 29 x 30 x 34 inches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-6-960x1200.jpg\" alt=\"a sculptural stool that looks as though it has been carved directly out of the middle of a tree, with bark on one side\" class=\"wp-image-448842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-6-960x1200.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-6-640x800.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-6-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-6-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-6-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lin-6.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Wood Stool&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lin&#8217;s pieces assume the recognizable forms of furniture and food, evoking playful meditations on mass production and consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2306,"featured_media":448844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,494],"tags":[34,561,3638,58,36],"class_list":["post-448837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-design","tag-furniture","tag-humor","tag-joyce-lin","tag-sculpture","tag-wood"],"acf":{"acf_sponsor_post":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Uncanny Objects by Joyce Lin Blur Distinctions Between Reality and the Fantastical &#8212; 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