Joyce Lin's table and chair are antiquities sealed away. Each block of matte blue acrylic suspends a blurred antique just out of reach. Lin is a Houston-based artist and furniture maker who treats familiar forms like chairs and tables as studies in dissection and mimicry. She studied furniture design at RISD and geology-biology at Brown; for this 2019 exhibition, she collaborated with Emeric Tchatchoua of the fashion label 3.Paradis on a series about dreams and remembrance.

The series was called “For Now We See Through A Glass Darkly,” which comes from 1 Corinthians 13:12 — a biblical banger about trying and failing to see what the future holds. Here, Lin looks back. The chair is a tufted comfort, evoking a weekend at Grandma’s. But it’s completely off-limits and forever out of reach.