Irene Wood – The Kitchen Table

The kitchen table series by local artist Irene Wood is inspired by Joy Harjo’s poem Perhaps the World Ends Here. In her words, the table is where “we laugh, cry, argue, pray, give birth, bury our dead.” It is mundane here, yet somehow simultaneously grand. This series reimagines the table as sacred ground – a space of inheritance, ritual, and everyday tenderness – where life’s joys, conflicts, and farewells unfold.