Centerpiece is part of a series of paintings documenting abandoned chairs as a way to explore both the resilience and fragility of the natural world as it’s breached by an ever-growing consumer culture. The detritus of our human lives permeates and transforms nature in the most unnatural of ways. Single-use plastics are the most ubiquitous of the manmade refuse, but furniture also enters this cycle of consumption. Chairs hold a functional role within domestic spaces, yet once no longer useful, end up curbside and destined for landfill. Paper scraps, shards of plastic, vinyl pieces, and discarded signage are integrated into the painting's surface. This improvisational way of creating new configurations always draws from nature as subject matter. The ebb and flow, growth and decay, of both the natural and the manmade are in a continuous state of transformation: an abnormal dichotomy between the disposable goods we consume and the natural world we need.