Stacked is a piece of contemplation—a gray area between sculpture and design. This piece is an exploration of subtracting bodies and adding others through play and constraint. The irony of removing the wooden legs while keeping the body, yet keeping the metal “leg” and removing its body, is a commentary on disposability.


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Before arriving at my final concepts, I did some iterative sketching, focusing mainly on the keywords/features that I have chosen for this project: shape, stacking, and material contrast.

With these features in mind I sketched accordingly and eliminated any sketches that did not inhabit all of these features. The drawings circled are the concepts that I liked the most.

After assemblying the pieces, I found myself feeling something was missing. I tried a variety of other attachments in different ways but that also felt like too much. I walked away from doing anything to this piece for a week and finally decided on adding a sanding down arm rest from a piece of my walker.