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Ruth Feeney Unfilled 2010 (detail), ground tea leaves

Unfilled challenges the current progression toward cheap, poor quality furniture. This work explores the idea that these near-disposable home furnishings have become a reflection of our diminished capacity to appreciate the value in taking time to do things well.

It was appropriate to employ the time consuming process of collecting, drying, grinding and then sifting used tea leaves and laboriously hand cutting each furniture-shaped stencil to make a work that would last for only a fraction of the time it took to make.