Wood chair, fire, beeswax, video

Van Duijn explores ephemerality and performance in this piece. She assembled hands onto the bottom of a chair, made out of beeswax. The hands were there to represent herself within the project, as her own hands created it. Van Duijn brought it to the beach at 5 A.M. to burn it while the sun rose. While burning the piece she walked around it and wrote messages to herself in the sand within a circle she had drawn. Van Duijn wanted to leave good intentions within it, burning away with the smoke and the wood of the project. Once the chair is burned and the wax is melted, the ocean will eventually erase all traces of herself being there, but the energy will remain. She collected the remnants and brought them into another space where she reassembled them in another form, to be seen in a new way, as a form of a full circle of creation.