i found this page today and it included some beautiful images and discussion of the work of roger ackling
Roger Ackling works with discarded materials: recycled card from the backs of writing pads; fragments of wood which have been thrown away or lost. He finds his wood on the margins, the places where things meet ...
The pieces which he chooses have always had some previous use. Wood which was shaped into an object by some unknown joiner, put to use and then tossed aside. 
By the time Ackling finds them, among the tide-wrack and the flies, the original artefact - chair or ladder or box - will have fallen apart at the seams, and lain out long enough for its elements to be chamfered smooth by the sea and the sand and to be bleached by the wind and the salt. What they were once is anybody's guess; they have become abstract.
By the time Ackling finds them, among the tide-wrack and the flies, the original artefact - chair or ladder or box - will have fallen apart at the seams, and lain out long enough for its elements to be chamfered smooth by the sea and the sand and to be bleached by the wind and the salt. What they were once is anybody's guess; they have become abstract.they are beautiful in this abstraction.
and yesterday i succumbed to a recent issue of the world of interiors (feb 2010) which included a spread on the house of sculptors mary sikkel and simon gaiger.
pieces by gaiger are promiment in the house, he carves in wood, and has made the most, i want to say langurous but that's not the right word, benches
plain (plane!) but with a seat shallowly carved out - caressing or cupping the body. perhaps they are sensuous benches
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