Camilo Huinca, a Chilean artist and designer known on Instagram as ONLYJOKE, has always worked at the boundary between illustration and object. With this series of carved wooden chairs, each piece is at once furniture, sculpture, and autobiographical narrative, built around memories of childhood, manual labor, rural landscapes, and literary figures including Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Kafka, and Chilean poet Gonzalo Millán.

In Huinca’s vision, the chair becomes a narrative structure. Faces emerge from backrests, figures inhabit seats and tabletops, and hand-painted carvings remain visible as emotional traces within the wood. Autobiographical portraits in which lived experience and literary influence become inseparable from the object itself.

Palma Sucia draws from a line by Gonzalo Millán and reflects on the dignity of manual labor: carved and painted surfaces evoke worn skin, dried paint, cuts, the physical marks left behind by work. Monólogo al origen takes its starting point from Rilke’s observation that childhood is humanity’s true homeland: four carved faces support the chair’s structure, three smiling and one sad, while a solitary figure occupies the seat like an adulthood resting on a complex landscape of memories. Confluencia, inspired by summers spent in rural Chillán, incorporates fragments of personal photographs into the piece: the chair becomes furniture and archive at once.

The carving marks, uneven contours, and hand-painted details keep the making process visible, giving each piece the character of a personal artifact. Describir un Viaje explores acceptance and emotional growth through symbolic figures; El Diablo, informed by Kafka, confronts suffering and endurance through a composition featuring a burning figure, a red head, and a black horse as an emblem of persistence. Through carving, painting, and symbolic form, Huinca transforms the chair into a place where memories remain visible, inside the wood.