How do we talk about an object’s function if it only breaks when in use? What if this point of breakage is only reached when a specific body attempts to use it? 

Fat bodies have been historically used as a comedic tool for their “destruction” of furniture. Anti-fatness works to villainize the fat body as something that is at the root of destruction instead of victim to it. These works attempt to freeze these critical moments of breaking in time. Is the object’s destruction, and therefore lack of function, the error of the object or does the fault rest in the subject that broke it? 

When blame is placed on the body for its harm to the object, there is a missed opportunity to question the object’s lack of integrity to support the body. If chairs cannot support a range of bodies, what other structures and institutions are failing too?