<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[shape+colour]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Jeremy]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com/author/shapeandcolour/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[adi meirtchak + adva noach: gum pile&nbsp;chair.]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Ah, the ol&#8217; gum under the chair. Brings back memories of high school: slouching down in some hard wooden seat mentally preparing yourself for the soul-sucking agony that is, say&#8230; physics. Or in my case physics, chemisty, algebra, calculus or any other left-brained pursuit. Except for biology &#8211; that was fun because it had animals.</p>
<p>But anyway, you&#8217;re in physics and you reach under to grab your backpack only to rub up against some nasty, calcified, Cretaceous-area wad of petrified gum. That&#8217;s gross.</p>
<p>Oddly, as in the work of Israeli industrial designers Adi Meirtchak and Adva Noach, if you stick several thousand pieces of gum to the bottom of a chair, it&#8217;s art. Don&#8217;t ask. It just is.</p>
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