Chairs

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This work looks at the isolation of living, being different can often lead to not being accepted. Each chair has been photographed the same way, enhancing the differences. The horizontal line running through all the photographs, where the table top meets the wall is faint but visible referencing the horizon line of land meeting sky.

Although happy with the photographs, I would have liked to have organised my time better so it was possible to print all photographs and mount them onto wooden boards or frame them , so they could be displayed better.

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Contraband – Taryn Simon

Bird corpse, labeled as home décor, Indonesia to Miami, Florida (prohibited)

Steroids, Testosterone & Sustanon, Pakistan (illegal)

Cigarettes, eight cartons, Marlboro (passenger declined to pay tax) (abandoned)

A set of 1,075 photographs — shot over five days at both the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Federal Inspection Site and the U.S. Postal Service International Mail Facility at John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York. Taryn Simon remained on site and photographed items seized or detained from passengers or express mail entering the United States, which would become the book and exhibition, ‘‘Contraband’’.

It is the simple uniformed images which I find most appealing. A catalogue of objects, giving an insight into the world through the restrictions of the United States – many of the seized objects are normal parts of everyday life in the travellers country of origin.

A projection of human desires.

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Victoria Jenkins

 Victoria Jenkins produces a series of still lives, constructing fictional archives.

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Sarah Lynch – Circles

 

 

There is a visual suggestion of a landscape achieved with the way Lynch positions the sculptures using a tabletop and wall backdrop. The division of the table and the wall becomes pictorially that which runs through land and sky. This horizontal line cuts through Lynch’s photographs emphasising the relation to landscape.

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More Chairs of Wear…

Getting more ideas:

50 Chairs - Innovations in Design and Materials - Mel ByarsModern Chairs - Charlotte & Peter Fiell

A Century of Chair Design - Frank Russell, Phillippe Garner, John Read

Modern Chairs - Charlotte & Peter Fiell

 

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Chairs of Wear

A few of the chair I have made using materials I had to hand

 

Grouping the chairs –  Chairs made from manipulating single clothing items, using pins and stitch to hold shape in place.

 

 These chair have been made amalgamating different clothing items together. (button and lace) (buckles and hair pins)

   

These chairs head further towards the idea of design, as the first is knitted (not a manipulated item) and a zip, with the item first take apart and destroy before being redesigned to resemble a chair

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Martino Gamper – 100 Chairs in 100 Days

Like Martino Gamper I intend to make my chairs in an immediate and spontaneous process, in an almost 3D sketch book way, with little analysis and initial planning.

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Researching

After discussing my chair made from recycled clothing, I developed the idea  – taking singular items which we wear and manipulating them to look like chairs. I looked at some works, which look at replicating objects.

Cathy Miles - The Tool Shed

Tree-Trunk Bench - Jengen Bey - DROOG Furniture

Hella Jongerius - Office Pets

 

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Object: Wear A Chair

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                        Looking at the different ways the chair can be depicted.

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                  Annika Schmidt’s chairs

Thinking about the concept ‘Wear a Chair’, I considered flipping the idea on its head, and developing a chair made of ware. Due to my previous research my ideas were going along the lines of a chair that still held all its characteristics, but was made from recycled clothing.

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