Blind drawings of chairs in the Geffrye Museum, London.
Digitally printed concertina.
Two editions – bound in cloth boards and unbound.
8 x 12 cm.
Unlimited edition.
Digitally printed on Japanese paper, hand-bound with envelope. 9 x 13 cm. Edition of 20.
“A chair is an object imbued with meaning that most other furniture is not” — Dr Adam Bowett (furniture historian).
The function of the chair is to hold a person, to provide support and comfort with a back, arms and legs. We use the same vocabulary to describe a chair as we do our bodies. We endow chairs with human values and each reveals something of the maker as well as the owner in the telling. Each has a different character, a different history and it is immediately resonant of the person to whom it belongs.
This series explores the emotional relationship people have with chairs. Each book tells the story of one person and a chosen chair.
Digitally printed on Japanese paper, hand-bound with envelope. 9 x 13 cm. Edition of 20.
“A chair is an object imbued with meaning that most other furniture is not” — Dr Adam Bowett (furniture historian).
The function of the chair is to hold a person, to provide support and comfort with a back, arms and legs. We use the same vocabulary to describe a chair as we do our bodies. We endow chairs with human values and each reveals something of the maker as well as the owner in the telling. Each has a different character, a different history and it is immediately resonant of the person to whom it belongs.
This series explores the emotional relationship people have with chairs. Each book tells the story of one person and a chosen chair.
Digitally printed on Japanese paper, hand-bound with envelope. 9 x 13 cm. Edition of 20.
“A chair is an object imbued with meaning that most other furniture is not” — Dr Adam Bowett (furniture historian).
The function of the chair is to hold a person, to provide support and comfort with a back, arms and legs. We use the same vocabulary to describe a chair as we do our bodies. We endow chairs with human values and each reveals something of the maker as well as the owner in the telling. Each has a different character, a different history and it is immediately resonant of the person to whom it belongs.
This series explores the emotional relationship people have with chairs. Each book tells the story of one person and a chosen chair.
Digitally printed on Japanese paper, hand-bound with envelope. 9 x 13 cm. Edition of 20.
“A chair is an object imbued with meaning that most other furniture is not” — Dr Adam Bowett (furniture historian).
The function of the chair is to hold a person, to provide support and comfort with a back, arms and legs. We use the same vocabulary to describe a chair as we do our bodies. We endow chairs with human values and each reveals something of the maker as well as the owner in the telling. Each has a different character, a different history and it is immediately resonant of the person to whom it belongs.
This series explores the emotional relationship people have with chairs. Each book tells the story of one person and a chosen chair.
Digitally printed on Japanese paper, hand-bound with envelope. 9 x 13 cm. Edition of 20.
“A chair is an object imbued with meaning that most other furniture is not” — Dr Adam Bowett (furniture historian).
The function of the chair is to hold a person, to provide support and comfort with a back, arms and legs. We use the same vocabulary to describe a chair as we do our bodies. We endow chairs with human values and each reveals something of the maker as well as the owner in the telling. Each has a different character, a different history and it is immediately resonant of the person to whom it belongs.
This series explores the emotional relationship people have with chairs. Each book tells the story of one person and a chosen chair.
Digitally printed on Japanese paper, hand-bound with envelope. 9 x 13 cm. Edition of 20.
“A chair is an object imbued with meaning that most other furniture is not” — Dr Adam Bowett (furniture historian).
The function of the chair is to hold a person, to provide support and comfort with a back, arms and legs. We use the same vocabulary to describe a chair as we do our bodies. We endow chairs with human values and each reveals something of the maker as well as the owner in the telling. Each has a different character, a different history and it is immediately resonant of the person to whom it belongs.
This series explores the emotional relationship people have with chairs. Each book tells the story of one person and a chosen chair.
Destination Unknown is part of Project C: a collaboration with 13 other artists published by whnicPRESS. Each artist was given a different book cover of the same publication, If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino, and asked to translate their image into words and book form.
A concertina book of family photographs sourced from the Found Photo Foundation in Whitechapel.
Digitally printed on Kozo paper. Size: 4.5 x 18 cm. Unlimited edition.
A series of telephone calls made over the course of a week to the Sherriff’s office of a small town in California.
