Vital Friction Series stool prompting our innate sense of

prompting our innate sense of material intelligence

The vertical tube is slightly off-center from the horizontal element

symbolizing the artist's Chinese and British heritage

the artist explores the ornamental and animate nature of the objects

Vital Friction Series stool prompting our innate sense ofThere is an erroneous distinction between the world inhabited by humans, vibrant and dynamic, and the inanimate "dead" background material that is merely a means to our ends. Lisa's work prompts a double take, inviting us to scrutinize an object first to identify it, and then to examine it more closely. We acknowledge the influential impact of material on our vitality and the importance of according it due respect. Vital Friction emerges from the