Please Sit for the Alternate Ending brought together Jeff Martin and Sam Klemick at Objective Gallery for a joint exhibition organized around a shared premise: that materials discarded or overlooked in the production of other goods carry enough inherent value to become the primary subject. Both designers work with what the industry typically moves past, and the exhibition gave that commitment a focused context.

Sam Klemick's pieces draw directly from her background in knitwear and textile design, which she practiced for 15 years before teaching herself to turn, carve, and sculpt. Her family lineage of quilters and carpenters is legible in the work's structural sensibility. For this exhibition, Klemick showed the Nap Chair and Chubby Stool, both handcrafted from salvaged Douglas fir with white canvas. The forms are light, symmetrical, and geometrically considered, heirloom objects made from material that would otherwise not survive into another use.

Jeff Martin approaches the same premise from a different discipline. Working in stoneware, glaze, maple, and suede, he hand-sculpts furniture and objects that sit at the intersection of craft and sculpture. His Sarcophagus Console Table and wall cabinet Sarcophagus 12 were both produced using traditional methods while remaining open to what the material produces unexpectedly in the making. Martin describes his practice as exploring the impossible with a material, finding form at the edge of what stoneware and wood will do together.

Taken together, the 2 bodies of work share a commitment to texture, materiality, and a kind of slow making that treats production waste and overlooked raw material as starting points rather than limitations.