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Jay Sae Jung Oh’s furniture is a little like a Stereogram: It’s abstract at first, but look long enough and silhouettes of familiar forms come into focus — the handlebars of a bicycle, an M&Ms coin bank, the head of a rocking horse. These objects, which she rescues from dumpsters and curbs, are held together by tightly wrapped swirls of leather cord.
'I felt like I had to do something,' Oh says. So she started bringing objects to her studio knowing that she wanted to repurpose them, but not exactly how. 'My classmates were joking to me that you're making another dumpster in the studio,' she says. Functionality was important to her, so furniture became the answer. She glued and taped things together and then wrapped them in jute. These early objects earned instant acclaim.
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