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Up, 2005
Carpenters’ glue
Lent by Tim and Sheryl Kochman

Among fine furniture makers, there is a preference for technically complex wood joinery and a general bias against simple glued joints. Peteran regards this intolerance of a basic construction material as curious. He made Up out of nothing but glue that was dripped repeatedly over a turned wooden bowl, which then was removed. Peteran is amused that people still often ask what type of bowl he used as a mold—they remain more interested in the wood that isn’t even there than in the sculpture itself.